CONTENTS.
THE OLD COUNTESS; OR, THE TWO PROPOSALS.
CHAPTER I. LOVE-LIGHTS IN TWO HEARTS.
CHAPTER II. CLARA APPEALS TO HER STEPMOTHER.
CHAPTER III. LOVER'S QUARREL.
CHAPTER IV. THE ITALIAN TEACHER.
CHAPTER V. THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN OPPOSITION.
CHAPTER VI. SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES GET INTO A CONJUGAL DIFFICULTY.
CHAPTER VII. THE OPERATIC SUPPER.
CHAPTER VIII. BEHIND THE SCENES.
CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST PERFORMANCE.
CHAPTER X. THE TWO FOSTER-CHILDREN MEET.
CHAPTER XI. LADY CLARA QUARRELS WITH HER STEPMOTHER.
CHAPTER XII. THE OLD PRISONER.
CHAPTER XIII. THE OLD COUNTESS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE OLD COUNTESS AND HER SERVANT.
CHAPTER XV. THE EARL'S RETURN.
CHAPTER XVI. THE WIFE AND THE DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER XVII. HUSBAND AND WIFE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STORMY NIGHT AND SUNSHINY MORNING.
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER THE FAILURE.
CHAPTER XX. LORD HILTON TAKES SUPPER WITH OLYMPIA.
CHAPTER XXI. ON THE WAY TO HOUGHTON CASTLE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE OLD COUNTESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. EXPLANATIONS AND CONCESSIONS.
CHAPTER XXIV. DOWN BY THE BROOK AMONG THE FERNS.
CHAPTER XXV. HOW LADY CLARA GOT HER OWN WAY.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE QUARREL AND THE LETTER.
CHAPTER XXVII. MAGGIE CASEY MEETS HER OLD LOVER.
CHAPTER XXVIII. JUST FIFTY POUNDS.
CHAPTER XXIX. OLYMPIA'S DEFEAT.
CHAPTER XXX. THE FAMILY MEETING AT HOUGHTON.
CHAPTER XXXI. DOWN AMONG THE FERNS AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXXII. OUT AMONG THE TREES.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE BALL AT HOUGHTON.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE OLD WOMAN WANDERS BACK AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXXV. LADY HOPE IN THE CASTLE.
CHAPTER XXXVI. DEATH IN THE TOWER-CHAMBER.
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE NEMESIS.
MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS' WORKS. Each Work is complete in one volume, 12mo.
THE OLD COUNTESS;
OR,
THE TWO PROPOSALS.
BY
MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS.
AUTHOR OF "LORD HOPE'S CHOICE," "THE REIGNING BELLE," "MARRIED IN HASTE,"
"MABEL'S MISTAKE," "DOUBLY FALSE," "WIVES AND WIDOWS," "MARY DERWENT,"
"THE REJECTED WIFE," "THE SOLDIER'S ORPHANS," "THE OLD HOMESTEAD,"
"FASHION AND FAMINE," "THE HEIRESS," "RUBY GRAY'S STRATEGY,"
"THE CURSE OF GOLD," "SILENT STRUGGLES," "THE WIFE'S SECRET,"
"PALACES AND PRISONS," "THE GOLD BRICK," "A NOBLE WOMAN."
A SEQUEL TO "LORD HOPE'S CHOICE."
PHILADELPHIA:
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS;
306 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
