{"product_id":"2940012757777","title":"A Modern Chronicle","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 1.\u003cbr\u003e     I.     WHAT'S IN HEREDITY?\u003cbr\u003e     II.    PERDITA RECALLED\u003cbr\u003e     III.   CONCERNING PROVIDENCE\u003cbr\u003e     IV.    OF TEMPERAMENT\u003cbr\u003e     V.     IN WHICH PROVIDENCE BEEPS FAITH\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    HONORA HAS A GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 2.\u003cbr\u003e     VII.   THE OLYMPIAN ORDER\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.  A CHAPTER OF CONQUESTS\u003cbr\u003e     IX.    IN WHICH THE VICOMTE CONTINUES HIS STUDIES\u003cbr\u003e     X.     IN WHICH HONORA WIDENS HER HORIZON\u003cbr\u003e     XI.    WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN\u003cbr\u003e     XII.   WHICH CONTAINS A SURPRISE FOR MRS. HOLT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK II.      Volume 3.\u003cbr\u003e     I.     SO LONG AS YE BOTH SHALL LIVE\u003cbr\u003e     II.    \"STAFFORD PARK\"\u003cbr\u003e     III.   THE GREAT UNATTACHED\u003cbr\u003e     IV.    THE NEW DOCTRINE\u003cbr\u003e     V.     QUICKSANDS\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    GAD AND MENI.      Volume 4.\u003cbr\u003e     VII.   OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.  OF MENTAL PROCESSES-FEMININE AND INSOLUBLE\u003cbr\u003e     IX.    INTRODUCING A REVOLUTIONIZING VEHICLE\u003cbr\u003e     X.     ON THE ART OF LION TAMING\u003cbr\u003e     XI.    CONTAINING SOME REVELATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BOOK III.      Volume 5.\u003cbr\u003e     I.    ASCENDI\u003cbr\u003e     II.   THE PATH OF PHILANTHROPY\u003cbr\u003e     III.  VINELAND\u003cbr\u003e     IV.   THE VIKING\u003cbr\u003e     V.    THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 6.\u003cbr\u003e     VI.    CLIO, OR THALIA?\u003cbr\u003e     VII    \"LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS\"\u003cbr\u003e     VIII.  IN WHICH THE LAW BETRAYS A HEART\u003cbr\u003e     IX.    WYLIE STREET\u003cbr\u003e     X.     THE PRICE OF FREEDOM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 7.\u003cbr\u003e     XI.    IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN\u003cbr\u003e     XII.   THE ENTRANCE INTO EDEN\u003cbr\u003e     XIII.  OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE GATES.\u003cbr\u003e     XIV.   CONTAINING PHILOSOPHY FROM MR. GRAINGER\u003cbr\u003e     XV.    THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Volume 8.\u003cbr\u003e     XVI.   IN WHICH A MIRROR IS HELD UP\u003cbr\u003e     XVII.  THE RENEWAL OF AN ANCIENT HOSPITALITY\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII. IN WHICH MR. ERWIN SEES PARIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA MODERN CHRONICLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine. She was born in\u003cbr\u003ethe last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, at Nice, in France, and she\u003cbr\u003espent the early years of her life in St. Louis, a somewhat conservative\u003cbr\u003eold city on the banks of the Mississippi River. Her father was Randolph\u003cbr\u003eLeffingwell, and he died in the early flower of his manhood, while\u003cbr\u003efilling with a grace that many remember the post of United States Consul\u003cbr\u003eat Nice. As a linguist he was a phenomenon, and his photograph in the\u003cbr\u003etortoise-shell frame proves indubitably, to anyone acquainted with the\u003cbr\u003efashions of 1870, that he was a master of that subtlest of all arts,\u003cbr\u003edress. He had gentle blood in his veins, which came from Virginia\u003cbr\u003ethrough Kentucky in a coach and six, and he was the equal in appearance\u003cbr\u003eand manners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonora has often pictured to herself a gay villa set high above the\u003cbr\u003ecurving shore, the amethyst depths shading into emerald, laced with\u003cbr\u003emilk-white foam, the vivid colours of the town, the gay costumes; the\u003cbr\u003eexcursions, the dinner-parties presided over by the immaculate young\u003cbr\u003econsul in three languages, and the guests chosen from the haute noblesse\u003cbr\u003eof Europe. Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees\u003cbr\u003eas she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar\u003cbr\u003ewith the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an\u003cbr\u003eeducating cosmopolitan nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonora's biography should undoubtedly contain a sketch of Mrs. Randolph\u003cbr\u003eLeffingwell. Beauty and dash and a knowledge of how to seat a table seem\u003cbr\u003eto have been the lady's chief characteristics; the only daughter of\u003cbr\u003ea carefully dressed and carefully, preserved widower, likewise a\u003cbr\u003elinguist,--whose super-refined tastes and the limited straits to which\u003cbr\u003ehe, the remaining scion of an old Southern family, had been reduced by a\u003cbr\u003egentlemanly contempt for money, led him 'to choose Paris rather than\u003cbr\u003eNew York as a place of residence. One of the occasional and carefully\u003cbr\u003eplanned trips to the Riviera proved fatal to the beautiful but reckless\u003cbr\u003eMyrtle Allison. She, who might have chosen counts or dukes from the\u003cbr\u003eTagus to the Danube, or even crossed the Channel; took the dashing\u003cbr\u003ebut impecunious American consul, with a faith in his future that was\u003cbr\u003esublime. Without going over too carefully the upward path which led to\u003cbr\u003ethe post of their country's representative at the court of St. James,\u003cbr\u003eneither had the slightest doubt that Randolph Leffingwell would tread\u003cbr\u003eit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is needless to dwell upon the chagrin of Honora's maternal\u003cbr\u003egrandfather, Howard Allison Esquire, over this turn of affairs, this\u003cbr\u003eunexpected bouleversement, as he spoke of it in private to his friends\u003cbr\u003ein his Parisian club.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081738109168,"sku":"2940012757777","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012757777_p0.jpg?v=1763572227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012757777","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}