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Elsie Venner

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2A Second Preface
  3. 3Preface to the New Edition
  4. 4Chapter I — The Brahmin Caste of New England
  5. 5Chapter II — The Student and His Certificate
  6. 6Chapter III — Mr. Bernard Tries His Hand
  7. 7Chapter IV — The Moth Flies Into the Candle
  8. 8Chapter V — An Old-Fashioned Descriptive Chapter
  9. 9Chapter VI — The Sunbeam and the Shadow
  10. 10Chapter VII — The Event of the Season
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Morning After
  12. 12Chapter IX — The Doctor Orders the Best Sulky. (With a Digression o…
  13. 13Chapter X — The Doctor Calls on Elsie Venner
  14. 14Chapter XI — Cousin Richard’s Visit
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Apollinean Institute. (With Extracts From the “Re…
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Curiosity
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Family Secrets
  18. 18Chapter XV — Physiological
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Epistolary
  20. 20Chapter XVII — Old Sophy Calls on the Reverend Doctor
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — The Reverend Doctor Calls on Brother Fairweather
  22. 22Chapter XIX — The Spider on His Thread
  23. 23Chapter XX — From Without and From Within
  24. 24Chapter XXI — The Widow Rowens Gives a Tea-Party
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Why Doctors Differ
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — The Wild Huntsman
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — On His Tracks
  28. 28Chapter XXV — The Perilous Hour
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — The News Reaches the Dudley Mansion
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — A Soul in Distress
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — The Secret Is Whispered
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — The White Ash
  33. 33Chapter XXX — The Golden Cord Is Loosed
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — Mr. Silas Peckham Renders His Account
  35. 35Chapter XXXII — Conclusion

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