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Title: The Grandissimes

Author: George Washington Cable

Release Date: May 6, 2004 [EBook #12280]

Language: English

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THE GRANDISSIMES

BY GEORGE W. CABLE

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ALBERT HERTER

MDCCCXCIX

1899

CONTENTS

I. Masked Batteries.
II. The Fate of the Immigrant.
III. "And who is my Neighbor?"
IV. Family Trees.
V. A Maiden who will not Marry.
VI. Lost Opportunities.
VII. Was it Honore Grandissime?
VIII. Signed--Honore Grandissime.
IX. Illustrating the Tractive Power of Basil.
X. "Oo dad is, 'Sieur Frowenfel'?"
XI. Sudden Flashes of Light.
XII. The Philosophe.
XIII. A Call from the Rent-Spectre.
XIV. Before Sunset.
XV. Rolled in the Dust.
XVI. Starlight in the rue Chartres.
XVII. That Night.
XVIII. New Light upon Dark Places.
XIX. Art and Commerce.
XX. A very Natural Mistake.
XXI. Doctor Keene Recovers his Bullet.
XXII. Wars within the Breast.
XXIII. Frowenfeld Keeps his Appointment.
XXIV. Frowenfeld Makes an Argument.
XXV. Aurora as a Historian.
XXVI. A Ride and a Rescue.
XXVII. The Fete de Grandpere.
XXVIII. The Story of Bras-Coupe.
XXIX. The Story of Bras-Coupe, Continued.
XXX. Paralysis.
XXXI. Another Wound in a New Place.
XXXII. Interrupted Preliminaries.
XXXIII. Unkindest Cut of All.
XXXIV. Clotilde as a Surgeon.
XXXV. "Fo' wad you Cryne?"
XXXVI. Aurora's Last Picayune.
XXXVII. Honore Makes some Confessions.
XXXVIII. Tests of Friendship.
XXXIX. Louisiana States her Wants.
XL. Frowenfeld Finds Sylvestre.
XLI. To Come to the Point.
XLII. An Inheritance of Wrong.
XLIII. The Eagle Visits the Doves in their Nest.
XLIV. Bad for Charlie Keene.
XLV. More Reparation.
XLVI. The Pique-en-terre Loses One of her Crew.
XLVII. The News.
XLVIII. An Indignant Family and a Smashed Shop.
XLIX.