With a General Introduction to the Series by GASTON BOISSIER,
Secretaire Perpetuel de l’academie Francaise.
CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
GEORGES OHNET
SERGE PANINE
BOOK 1.
CHAPTER I. THE HOUSE OF DESVARENNES
CHAPTER II. THE GALLEY-SLAVE OF PLEASURE
CHAPTER III. PIERRE RETURNS
CHAPTER IV. THE RIVALS
CHAPTER V. A CRITICAL INTERVIEW
CHAPTER VI. A SIGNIFICANT MEETING
BOOK 2.
CHAPTER VII. JEANNE’S SECRET
CHAPTER VIII. A PLEASANT UNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER IX. THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE
CHAPTER X. CAYROL’S DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XI. CONFESSION
CHAPTER XII. THE FETE
BOOK 3.
CHAPTER XIII. THE FIRST BREAK
CHAPTER XIV. A SUDDEN JOURNEY
CHAPTER XV. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XVI. THE TELLTALE KISS
CHAPTER XVII. CAYROL IS BLIND
BOOK 4.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE UNIVERSAL CREDIT COMPANY
CHAPTER XIX. SIN GROWS BOLDER
CHAPTER XX. THE CRISIS
CHAPTER XXI. "WHEN ROGUES FALL OUT”
CHAPTER XXII. THE MOTHER’S REVENGE
BY ROBERT ARNOT
The editor-in-chief of the Maison Mazarin—a man of letters who cherishes an enthusiastic yet discriminating love for the literary and artistic glories of France—formed within the last two years the great project of collecting and presenting to the vast numbers of intelligent readers of whom New World boasts a series of those great and undying romances which, since 1784, have received the crown of merit awarded by the French Academy—that coveted assurance of immortality in letters and in art.
In the presentation of this serious enterprise for the criticism and official sanction of The Academy, ‘en seance’, was included a request that, if possible, the task of writing a preface to the series should be un