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| CHAP. | |
| I. | PROLOGUE. |
| II. | CLAM BEACH. |
| III. | THE FIRST EVENING. |
| IV. | THE PERILS OF SURF-BATHING. |
| V. | ROSE AND LETTICE. |
| VI. | WITH THE SMOKERS. |
| VII. | A TABLEAU. |
| VIII. | MRS WILKIE'S POWDER. |
| IX. | BETWEEN FRIENDS. |
| X. | A MOTHER'S CARES. |
| XI. | DISCUSSING A SUITOR. |
| XII. | TO NAHANT? |
| XIII. | MAIDA SPRINGER. |
| XIV. | SUNSET AND MOONSHINE. |
| XV. | IN AN OMNIBUS. |
| XVI. | LIPPENSTOCK BAY. |
| XVII. | FESSENDEN'S ISLAND. |
| XVIII. | AN ADIEU. |
| XIX. | STORM-STAYED. |
It was evening in New Orleans--the brief swift evening of the South,which links, with imperceptible graduation, the sultry glare of day tothe cool of night. The narrow old streets were growing dim in thetransparent dusk. The torpid houses, sealed up hermetically throughall the afternoon to exclude the heated li