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Confession

by William Gilmore Simms

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Chapter I — Confession, or the Blind Heart
  3. 3Chapter II — Boy Passions — A Profession Chosen
  4. 4Chapter III — Admitted Among the Lawyers
  5. 5Chapter IV — “She Still Soothed the Mock of Others”
  6. 6Chapter V — Debut
  7. 7Chapter VI — Denial and Defeat
  8. 8Chapter VII — Temptation
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Love Finds No Smooth Water in the Sea of Law
  10. 10Chapter IX — Duello
  11. 11Chapter X — Head Winds
  12. 12Chapter XI — Crisis
  13. 13Chapter XII — “Gone to Be Married”
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Baffled Fury
  15. 15Chapter XIV — One Debt Paid
  16. 16Chapter XV — Honeymoon Period
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Happy Season
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Evil Principle
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Presentiments
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Distrust
  21. 21Chapter XX — Progress of the Evil Spirit
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Changes of Home
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Self-Humiliation
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Progress of Passion
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — A Group
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Old Goose Finds a Young Gander
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — The Heart-Fiend Finds an Echo From the Fiend Without
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Kingsley
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Morals of Enterprise
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The Hell
  31. 31Chapter XXX — False Luck
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — How the Game Was Played
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — Sudden Lesson and New Suspicions
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — Still the Cloud
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — A Father’s Griefs
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — Application of “The Question”
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — Meditated Exile
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — “And Still the Bitter in the Cup of Joy”
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — Renewed Agonies
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — The New Home
  41. 41Chapter XL — The Black Dog Once More Upon the Scene
  42. 42Chapter XLI — Trial — The Woman Grows Strong
  43. 43Chapter XLII — Cross Purposes
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — Accident and More Agonies
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — The Damning Letter
  46. 46Chapter XLV — Verge of the Precipice
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — The Unbridled Madness
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — Fatal Silence
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Too Late!
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — Suicide
  51. 51Chapter L — Confession of Edgerton
  52. 52Chapter LI — Doubts — Summons
  53. 53Chapter LII — Death
  54. 54Chapter LIII — Revelation — The Letter of Julia

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