CONFESSION

or,

THE BLIND HEART

A Domestic Story


By W. Gilmore Simms



  Wagner. But of the world--the heart, the mind of man,          How happy could we know!  Faust.              What can we know?          Who dares bestow the infant his true name?          The few who felt and knew, but blindly gave          Their knowledge to the multitude—they fell!          Incapable to keep their full hearts in,          They, from the first of immemorial time,          Were crucified or burnt.                           Goethe's Faust, MS. Version.






CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. — CONFESSION, OR THE BLIND HEART.

CHAPTER II. — BOY PASSIONS—A PROFESSION CHOSEN.

CHAPTER III. — ADMITTED AMONG THE LAWYERS

CHAPTER IV. — “SHE STILL SOOTHED THE MOCK OF OTHERS.”

CHAPTER V. — DEBUT.

CHAPTER VI. — DENIAL AND DEFEAT.

CHAPTER VII. — TEMPTATION.

CHAPTER VIII. — LOVE FINDS NO SMOOTH WATER IN THE SEA OF LAW

CHAPTER IX. — DUELLO.

CHAPTER X. — HEAD WINDS.

CHAPTER XI. — CRISIS.

CHAPTER XII. — “GONE TO BE MARRIED.”

CHAPTER XIII. — BAFFLED FURY.

CHAPTER XIV. — ONE DEBT PAID.

CHAPTER XV. — HONEYMOON PERIOD.

CHAPTER XVI. — THE HAPPY SEASON.

CHAPTER XVII. — THE EVIL PRINCIPLE.

CHAPTER XVIII. — PRESENTIMENTS.

CHAPTER XIX. — DISTRUST.

CHAPTER XX. — PROGRESS OF THE EVIL SPIRIT.

CHAPTER XXI. — CHANGES OF HOME.

CHAPTER XXII. — SELF-HUMILIATION.

CHAPTER XXIII. — PROGRESS OF PASSION.

CHAPTER XXIV. — A GROUP.

CHAPTER XXV. — THE OLD GOOSE FINDS A YOUNG GANDER.

CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE HEART-FIEND FINDS AN ECHO FROM THE FIEND WITHOUT.

CHAPTER XXVII. — KINGSLEY.

CHAPTER XXVIII. — MORALS OF ENTERPRISE.

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