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NOTE: This is an age of Trilogies and Sequels. The title at thebeginning of this book, "The Rising City: I," may lead nervous readersto fear yet another attempt in that extended and discursive direction.
To reassure them I wish to emphasize this point—that The Duchess ofWrexe is entirely a novel complete and independent in itself. It isgrouped, with the two stories that will follow it, under the heading of"The Rising City" because the three novels will be connected in place,in idea, and in sequence of time. Also certain of the same characterswill appear in all three books. But the novels are not intended assequels of one another, nor is "The Rising City" a Trilogy.—H. W.
BOOK I. THE DUCHESS
CHAPTER I. Felix Brun, Dr. Christopher, Rachel Beaminster—They Are Surveyed bythe Portrait
CHAPTER II. Rachel
CHAPTER III. Lady Adela
CHAPTER IV. The Pool
CHAPTER V. She Comes Out
CHAPTER VI. Fans
CHAPTER VII. In the Heart of the House
CHAPTER VIII. The Tiger
CHAPTER IX. The Golden Cage
CHAPTER X. Lizzie and Breton
CHAPTER XI. Her Grace's Day
CHAPTER XII. Defiance of the Tiger—I
CHAPTER XIII. Defiance of the Tiger—II
BOOK II: RACHEL
CHAPTER I. The Pool and the Snow
CHAPTER II. A Little House
CHAPTER III. First Sequel to Defiance
CHAPTER IV. Rachel—and Christopher and Roddy
CHAPTER V. Lizzie's Journey—I
CHAPTER VI.