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Riverside Edition
THE WRITINGS OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
_WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS, PORTRAITS, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS_
IN SIXTEEN VOLUMES VOLUME VII
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Riverside Edition
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
AGNES OF SORRENTO
BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1899
Copyright, 1862 and 1890, BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
Copyright, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
_All rights reserved._
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._ Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE
INTRODUCTORY NOTE vii
I. THE OLD TOWN 1
II. THE DOVE-COT 8
III. THE GORGE 14
IV. WHO AND WHAT 19
V. IL PADRE FRANCESCO 29
VI. THE WALK TO THE CONVENT 42
VII. THE DAY AT THE CONVENT 57
VIII. THE CAVALIER 75
IX. THE ARTIST MONK 82
X. THE INTERVIEW 107
XI. THE CONFESSIONAL 125
XII. PERPLEXITIES 133
XIII. THE MONK AND THE CAVALIER 152
XIV. THE MONK'S STRUGGLE 165
XV. THE SERPENT'S EXPERIMENT 189
XVI. ELSIE PUSHES HER SCHEME 194
XVII. THE MONK'S DEPARTURE 213
XVIII. THE PENANCE 226
XIX. CLOUDS DEEPENING 238
XX. FLORENCE AND HER PROPHET 255
XXI. THE ATTACK ON SAN MARCO 264
XXII. THE CATHEDRAL 273
XXIII. THE PILGRIMAGE 290
XXIV. THE MOUNTAIN FORTRESS 301
XXV. THE CRISIS 313
XXVI. ROME 328
XXVII. THE SAINT'S REST 337
XXVIII. PALM SUNDAY 347
XXIX. THE NIGHT-RIDE 355
XXX. "LET US ALSO GO, THAT WE MAY DIE WITH HIM" 366
XXXI. MARTYRDOM 372
XXXII. CONCLUSION 375
The frontispiece ("The Cavalier stood in the moonlight before Agnes,"page 92) and the vignette were drawn by Malcolm Fraser.