PROEM.
CONTENTS. I. CHILDHOODS AND GIRLHOODS II. A MALTESE MISCELLANY
BOOK I. CHILDHOODS AND GIRLHOODS.
THE HEAVENLY TWINS. CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI. Part of the old gray palace at Morningquest had
CHAPTER XXII.
BOOK II. A MALTESE MISCELLANY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II. (2)
CHAPTER III. (2)
CHAPTER IV. (2)
CHAPTER V. (2)
CHAPTER VI. (2)
CHAPTER VII. (2)
CHAPTER VIII. (2)
CHAPTER IX. (2)
CHAPTER X. (2)
CHAPTER XI. (2)
CHAPTER XII. (2)
CHAPTER XIII. (2)
BOOK III. DEVELOPMENT AND ARREST OF DEVELOPMENT.
CHAPTER I. (2)
CHAPTER II. (3)
CHAPTER III. (3)
CHAPTER IV. (3)
CHAPTER V. (3)
CHAPTER VI. (3)
CHAPTER VII. (3)
CHAPTER VIII. (3)
CHAPTER IX. (3)
CHAPTER X. (3)
CHAPTER XI. (3)
CHAPTER XII. (3)
CHAPTER XIII. (3)
CHAPTER XIV. (2)
CHAPTER XV. (2)
BOOK IV. THE TENOR AND THE BOY. AN INTERLUDE.
CHAPTER I. (3)
CHAPTER II. (4)
CHAPTER III. (4)
CHAPTER IV. (4)
CHAPTER V. (4)
CHAPTER VI. (4)
CHAPTER VIII. (4)
CHAPTER IX. (4)
CHAPTER X. (4)
CHAPTER XI. (4)
CHAPTER XII. (4)
CHAPTER XIII. (4)
CHAPTER XIV. (3)
CHAPTER XV. (3)
BOOK V. MRS. KILROY OF ILVERTHORPE.
CHAPTER I. (4)
CHAPTER II. (5)
CHAPTER III. (5)
CHAPTER IV. (5)
CHAPTER V. (5)
CHAPTER VI. (5)
CHAPTER VII. (4)
CHAPTER VIII. (5)
BOOK VI. THE IMPRESSIONS OF DR. GALBRAITH
CHAPTER I. (5)
CHAPTER II. (6)
CHAPTER III. (6)
CHAPTER IV. (6)
CHAPTER V. (6)
CHAPTER VI. (6)
CHAPTER VII. (5)
CHAPTER VIII. (6)
CHAPTER IX. (5)
CHAPTER X. (5)
CHAPTER XI (5)
CHAPTER XII. (5)
CHAPTER XIII. (5)
CHAPTER XIV. (4)
CHAPTER XV. (4)
CHAPTER XVI. (2)
CHAPTER XVII. (2)
CHAPTER XVIII. (2)
CHAPTER XIX. (2)
Title: The Heavenly Twins
Author: Madame Sarah Grand
Edition: 10
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO Latin-1
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THE HEAVENLY TWINS
BY MADAME SARAH GRAND AUTHOR OF "IDEALA," ETC. ETC.
"They call us the Heavenly Twins."
"What, signs of the Zodiac?" said the Tenor.
"No; signs of the times," said the Boy.
The time is racked with birth-pangs; every hour
Brings forth some gasping truth, and truth new-born
Looks a misshapen and untimely growth,
The terror of the household and its shame,
A monster coiling in its nurse's lap
That some would strangle, some would starve;
But still it breathes, and passed from hand to hand,
And suckled at a hundred half-clad breasts
Comes slowly to its stature and its form,
Calms the rough ridges of its dragon scales,
Changes to shining locks its snaky hair,
And moves transfigured into Angel guise,
Welcomed by all that cursed its hour of birth,
And folded in the same encircling arms
That cast it like a serpent from their hold!
—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
