Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892 / 2008-07-12 00:00:00

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A SIREN
By Thomas Adolphus Trollope


CONTENTS
BOOK I
Ash Wednesday Morning
CHAPTER
I The Last Night of Carnival
II Apollo Vindex
III St. Apollinare in Classe
IV Father Fabiano
V "The Hours passed, and still she came not"
VI Gigia's Opinion
VII An Attorney-at-Law in the Papal States
VIII Lost in the Forest
IX "Passa la bella Donna e par che dorma"
BOOK II
Four Mmonth Before That Ash Wednesday Morning
CHAPTER
I How the Good News came to Ravenna
II The Marchese Lamberto di Castelmare
III The Impresario's Report
IV Paolina Foscarelli
V Rivalry
VI The Beginning of Trouble
VII The Teaching of a Great Love
VIII A Change in the Situation
IX Uncle and Nephew
X The Coutessa Violante
XI The Cardinal's Reception, and the Marchese's Ball
XII The Arrival of the "Diva"
BOOK III
"Sirenum Pocula"
CHAPTER
I "Diva Potens"
II An Adopted Father and an Adopted Daughter
III "Armed at All Points"
IV Throwing the Line
V After-thoughts
VI At the Circolo
VII Extremes Meet
VIII The Diva shows her Cards
IX One Struggle more
BOOR IV
The Last Days of the Carnival
CHAPTER
I In the Cardinal's Chapel
II The Corso
III "La Sonnambula"
IV The Marchese Lamberto's Correspondence
V Bianca at Home
VI Paolina at Home
VII Two Interviews
VIII A Carnival Reception
IX Paolina's Return to the City
BOOK V
Who Did The Deed?
CHAPTER
I At the City Gate
II Suspicion
III Guilty or Not Guilty?
IV The Marchese hears the Ill News
V Doubts and Possibilities
VI At the Circolo again
VII A Prison Visit
VIII Signor Giovacchino Fortini at Home
IX The Post-Mortem Examination
X Public Opinion
XI In Father Fabiano's Cell
XII The Case against Paolina
BOOK VI
Poena Pede Claudo
CHAPTER
I Signor Fortini receives the Signora Steno in his Studio
II Was it Paolina after all?
III Could it have been the Aged Friar?
IV What Ravenna thought of it
V "Miserrimus"
VI The Trial
VII The Friar's Testimony
VIII The Truth!
IX Conclusion


A SIREN
By Thomas Adolphus Trollope


BOOK I
Ash Wednesday Morning

CHAPTER I
The Last Night of Carnival

It was Carnival time in the ancient and once imperial, but now
provincial and remote, city of Ravenna.
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