Harold Frederic Copyright 1890
Dedication.
Chapter I "The French Are in the Valley!"
Chapter II Setting Forth How the Girl Child Was Brought to Us.
Chapter III Master Philip Makes His Bow And Behaves Badly.
Chapter IV In Which I Become the Son of the House.
Chapter V How a Stately Name Was Shortened and Sweetened.
Chapter VI Within Sound of the Shouting Waters.
Chapter VII Through Happy Youth to Man's Estate.
Chapter VIII Enter My Lady Berenicia Cross.
Chapter IX I See My Sweet Sister Dressed in Strange Attire.
Chapter X The Masquerade Brings Me Nothing but Pain.
Chapter XI As I Make My Adieux Mr. Philip Comes In.
Chapter XII Old-Time Politics Pondered Under the Forest Starlight.
Chapter XIII To the Far Lake Country and Home Again.
Chapter XIV How I Seem to Feel a Wanting Note in the Chorus of Welcome.
Chapter XV The Rude Awakening from My Dream.
Chapter XVI Tulp Gets a Broken Head to Match My Heart.
Chapter XVII I Perforce Say Farewell to My Old Home.
Chapter XVIII The Fair Beginning of a New Life in Ancient Albany.
Chapter XIX I Go to a Famous Gathering at the Patroon's Manor House.
Chapter XX A Foolish and Vexatious Quarrel Is Thrust Upon Me.
Chapter XXI Containing Other News Besides that from Bunker Hill.
Chapter XXII The Master and Mistress of Cairncross.
Chapter XXIII How Philip in Wrath, Daisy in Anguish, Fly Their Home.
Chapter XXIV The Night Attack upon Quebec And My Share in It.
Chapter XXV A Crestfallen Return to Albany.
Chapter XXVI I See Daisy and the Old Home Once More.
Chapter XXVII The Arrest of Poor Lady Johnson.
Chapter XXVIII An Old Acquaintance Turns Up In Manacles.
Chapter XXIX The Message Sent Ahead from the Invading Army.
Chapter XXX From the Scythe and Reaper to the Musket.
Chapter XXXI The Rendezvous of Fighting Men at Fort Dayton.
Chapter XXXII "The Blood Be on Your Heads."
Chapter XXXIII The Fearsome Death-Struggle in the Forest.
Chapter XXXIV Alone at Last with My Enemy.
Chapter XXXV The Strange Uses to Which Revenge May Be Put.
Chapter XXXVI A Final Scene in the Gulf which My Eyes Are Mercifully Spared.
Chapter XXXVII The Peaceful Ending of It All.
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