Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters
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HOME INFLUENCE:
A Tale
FOR MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
NEW EDITION.
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NOS. 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET, (FRANKLIN SQUARE.) 1856.
PREFACE.
MEMOIR OF GRACE AGUILAR.
CONTENTS
HOME INFLUENCE.
PART I.
THE SISTERS.
CHAPTER I.
A LAUNCH.—A PROMISE.—A NEW RELATION.
CHAPTER II.
GLIMPSES INTO A CHILD'S HEART.—A DEATHBED.
CHAPTER III.
RETROSPECTION.—THE LOWLY SOUGHT.—THE HAUGHTY FOILED.
CHAPTER IV.
RETROSPECTIVE.—EFFECTS OF COQUETRY.—OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE.
CHAPTER V.
A HEART AND HOME IN ENGLAND.—A HEART AND HOME IN INDIA.
CHAPTER VI.
DOMESTIC DISCORD AND ITS END.
PART II.
TRAITS OF CHARACTER.
CHAPTER I.
YOUTHFUL COLLOQUY—INTRODUCING CHARACTER
CHAPTER II.
THREE ENGLISH HOMES, AND THEIR INMATES.
CHAPTER III.
HOME SCENE.—VISITORS.—CHILDISH MEDITATIONS.
CHAPTER IV.
VARIETIES.
CHAPTER V.
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN A PASSION.—A WALK.—A SCENE OF DISTRESS.
CHAPTER VI.
CECIL GRAHAME'S PHILOSOPHY.—AN ERROR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.—A MYSTERY AND A CONFIDENCE.
CHAPTER VII.
MR. MORTON'S STORY.—A CONFESSION.—A YOUNG PLEADER.—GENEROSITY NOT ALWAYS JUSTICE.
CHAPTER VIII.
AN UNPLEASANT PROPOSAL.—THE MYSTERY SOLVED.—A FATHER'S GRIEF FROM A MOTHER'S WEAKNESS.—A FATHER'S JOY FROM A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
CHAPTER IX.
TEMPTATION AND DISOBEDIENCE.—FEAR.—FALSEHOOD AND PUNISHMENT.
CHAPTER X.
PAIN AND PENITENCE.—TRUTH IMPRESSED, AND RECONCILIATION.—THE FAMILY TREE.
CHAPTER XI.
THE CHILDREN'S BALL.
CHAPTER XII.
EFFECTS OF PLEASURE.—THE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN.—ILL-TEMPER, ITS ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER XIII.
SUSPICION.—A PARTING, A DOUBLE GRIEF.—INNOCENCE PROVED.—WRONG DONE AND EVIL CONFIRMED BY DOUBT.
PART III.
SIN AND SUFFERING.
CHAPTER I.
ADVANCE AND RETROSPECT.
CHAPTER II.
A LETTER, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
CHAPTER III.
A SUMMONS AND A LOSS.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BROKEN DESK
CHAPTER V.
THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE.
CHAPTER VI.
THE SENTENCE, AND ITS EXECUTION.
CHAPTER VII.
THE LIGHT GLIMMERS.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE STRUGGLE.
CHAPTER IX.
ILLNESS AND REMORSE.
CHAPTER X.
MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONS ERADICATED.
CHAPTER XI.
THE LOSS OF THE SIREN.
CHAPTER XII.
FOREBODINGS.
CHAPTER XIII.
FORGIVENESS.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE RICH AND THE POOR.
CHAPTER XV.
A HOME SCENE, AND A PARTING.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE BIRTHDAY GIFT.
THE END
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