The Old Countess (Sedgwick)

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By Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The Old Countess

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Franklin Winslow Kane

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Tante

A Childhood in Brittany

Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston and New York

The Old Countess

By
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
(Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt)

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

Second impression, March, 1927

The Riverside Press
Cambridge · Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

Contents

I.	The Old Countess	3
II.	Jill	10
III.	The Cemetery	18
IV.	The Derelicts	27
V.	Jill and Graham	39
VI.	The Curé's Cat	47
VII.	Childe Roland	57
VIII.	Marthe Ludérac	72
IX.	Family Histories	89
X.	On the Island	99
XI.	On the Balcony	116
XII.	The Evening Party	124
XIII.	The Harp	139
XIV.	Eurydice	154
XV.	Marthe Ludérac's Story	171
XVI.	The Friends	188
XVII.	The Sibyl	197
XVIII.	The Torrent	207
XIX.	Still Tempest	221
XX.	The Courtesan	230
XXI.	The Lost Eurydice	242
XXII.	Cécile Léonore	253
XXIII.	In Marthe Ludérac's Room	262
XXIV.	The Permissionnaire	266
XXV.	The Last Reading	279
XXVI.	In the Garden	287
XXVII.	The Storm	298
XXVIII.	By the Cemetery Wall	316
XXIX.	The Dream	325
XXX.	The Parting	329
XXXI.	The Empty House	339
XXXII.	The Flood	352
	Epilogue	364

The Old Countess

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