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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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• BOOK I.
  PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS 1

• BOOK II.
  LOVE, DELIGHT, AND ALARM 26

• BOOK III.
  THE PRESENTIMENT AND THE VERIFICATION 56

• BOOK IV.
  RETROSPECTIVE 89

• BOOK V.
  MISGIVINGS AND PREPARATIVES 116

• BOOK VI.
  ISABEL, AND THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL 147

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• BOOK VII.
  INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN PIERRE'S TWO INTERVIEWS
  WITH ISABEL AT THE FARM-HOUSE 173

• BOOK VIII.
  THE SECOND INTERVIEW, AND THE SECOND PART OF
  THE STORY OF ISABEL. THEIR IMMEDIATE IMPULSIVE
  EFFECT UPON PIERRE 194

• BOOK IX.
  MORE LIGHT, AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT. MORE
  GLOOM, AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM 224

• BOOK X.
  THE UNPRECEDENTED FINAL RESOLUTION OF PIERRE 233

• BOOK XI.
  HE CROSSES THE RUBICON 247

• BOOK XII.
  ISABEL, MRS. GLENDINNING, THE PORTRAIT, AND LUCY 256

• BOOK XIII.
  THEY DEPART THE MEADOWS 273

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• BOOK XIV.
  THE JOURNEY AND THE PAMPHLET 277

• BOOK XV.
  THE COUSINS 294

• BOOK XVI.
  FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE CITY 312

• BOOK XVII.
  YOUNG AMERICA IN LITERATURE 333

• BOOK XVIII.
  PIERRE, AS A JUVENILE AUTHOR, RECONSIDERED 350

• BOOK XIX.
  THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES 360

• BOOK XX.
  CHARLIE MILLTHORPE 374

• BOOK XXI.
  PIERRE IMMATURELY ATTEMPTS A MATURE BOOK. TIDINGS
  FROM THE MEADOWS. PLINLIMMON 384

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• BOOK XXII.
  THE FLOWER-CURTAIN LIFTED FROM BEFORE A TROPICAL
  AUTHOR; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL
  FLESH-BRUSH PHILOSOPHY 402

• BOOK XXIII.
  A LETTER FOR PIERRE. ISABEL. ARRIVAL OF LUCY'S
  EASEL AND TRUNKS AT THE APOSTLES' 418

• BOOK XXIV.
  LUCY AT THE APOSTLES' 439

• BOOK XXV.
  LUCY, ISABEL, AND PIERRE. PIERRE AT HIS BOOK.
  ENCELADUS 450

• BOOK XXVI.
  A WALK; A FOREIGN PORTRAIT; A SAIL. AND THE
  END 475