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BOOK I

THE FAIRY PRINCESS

CHAPTER PAGE
I An American Family 3
II American Beauties 12
III Picking up the Threads 22
IV The Dawn 32
V The Day Begins 42
VI Lydia’s Godfather 55
VII Outside the Labyrinth 61
VIII The Shadow of the Coming Event 78
IX Father and Daughter 88
X Casus Belli 99

BOOK II

IN THE LOCOMOTIVE CAB

XI What is Best for Lydia 115
XII A Sop to the Wolves 122
XIII Lydia Decides in Perfect Freedom 131
XIV Mid-Season Nerves 139
XV A Half-Hour’s Liberty 154
XVI Engaged to Be Married 165
XVII Card-Dealing and Patent Candles 177

BOOK III

A SUITABLE MARRIAGE

XVIII Two Sides to the Question 193
XIX Lydia’s New Motto 207
XX An Evening’s Entertainment 215
XXI An Element of Solidity 226
XXII The Voices in the Wood 233
XXIII For Ariadne’s Sake 244
XXIV “Through Pity and Terror Effecting a Purification of the Heart” 261
XXV A Black Milestone 270
XXVI A Hint from Childhood 277
XXVII Lydia Reaches Her Goal and has Her Talk with Her Husband 289
XXVIII “the American Man” 307
XXIX “... in Tragic Life, God Wot,
No Villain Need Be. Passions Spin the Plot.”
318
XXX Tribute to the Minotaur 327

BOOK IV

BUT IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR ARIADNE

XXXI Protection from the Minotaur 337
XXXII As Ariadne Saw it 342
XXXIII What is Best for the Children? 351
XXXIV Through the Long Night 359
XXXV The Swaying Balance 365
XXXVI Another Day Begins 369

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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