A Modern Chronicle

A Modern Chronicle

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Title: A Modern Chronicle, Complete
Author: Winston Churchill (USA author, not Sir Winston Churchill)
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN
CHRONICLE, ALL, BY CHURCHILL ***

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[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the
file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making
an entire meal of them. D.W.]

A MODERN CHRONICLE
By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS
BOOK I.
Volume 1. I. WHAT'S IN HEREDITY? II. PERDITA RECALLED III.
CONCERNING PROVIDENCE IV. OF TEMPERAMENT V. IN
WHICH PROVIDENCE BEEPS FAITH VI. HONORA HAS A
GLIMPSE OF THE WORLD
Volume 2. VII. THE OLYMPIAN ORDER VIII. A
CHAPTER OF
CONQUESTS IX. IN WHICH THE VICOMTE CONTINUES HIS
STUDIES X. IN WHICH HONORA WIDENS HER HORIZON XI.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN XII. WHICH CONTAINS A
SURPRISE FOR MRS. HOLT
BOOK II
Volume 3. I. SO LONG AS YE BOTH SHALL LIVE II. "STAFFORD
PARK" III. THE GREAT UNATTACHED IV. THE NEW
DOCTRINE V. QUICKSANDS VI. GAD AND MENI
Volume 4. VII. OF CERTAIN DELICATE MATTERS VIII. OF
MENTAL PROCESSES-FEMININE AND INSOLUBLE IX.
INTRODUCING A REVOLUTIONIZING VEHICLE X. ON THE
ART OF LION TAMING XI. CONTAINING SOME REVELATIONS

BOOK III Volume 5. I. ASCENDI II. THE PATH OF
PHILANTHROPY III. VINELAND IV. THE VIKING V. THE
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Volume 6. VI. CLIO, OR THALIA? VII "LIBERTY, AND THE
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" VIII. IN WHICH THE LAW BETRAYS
A HEART IX. WYLIE STREET X. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
Volume 7. XI. IN WHICH IT IS ALL DONE OVER AGAIN XII. THE
ENTRANCE INTO EDEN XIII. OF THE WORLD BEYOND THE
GATES. XIV. CONTAINING PHILOSOPHY FROM MR.
GRAINGER XV. THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY
Volume 8. XVI. IN WHICH A MIRROR IS HELD UP XVII. THE
RENEWAL OF AN ANCIENT HOSPITALITY XVIII. IN WHICH
MR. ERWIN SEES PARIS

A MODERN CHRONICLE

CHAPTER I
WHAT'S IN HEREDITY
Honora Leffingwell is the original name of our heroine. She was born
in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, at Nice, in France, and she
spent the early years of her life in St. Louis, a somewhat conservative
old city on the banks of the Mississippi River. Her father was Randolph
Leffingwell, and he died in the early flower of his manhood, while
filling with a grace that many remember the post of United States
Consul at Nice. As a linguist he was a phenomenon, and his photograph
in the tortoise-shell frame proves indubitably, to anyone acquainted
with the fashions of 1870, that he was a master of that subtlest of all
arts, dress. He had gentle blood in his veins, which came from Virginia
through Kentucky in a coach and six, and he was the equal in
appearance and manners of any duke who lingered beside classic seas.
Honora has often pictured to herself a gay villa set high above the
curving shore, the amethyst depths shading into emerald, laced with
milk-white foam, the vivid colours of the town, the gay costumes; the
excursions, the dinner-parties presided over by the immaculate young

consul in three languages, and the guests chosen from the haute
noblesse of Europe. Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to
by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously
became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other
literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature.
Honora's biography should undoubtedly contain a sketch of Mrs.
Randolph Leffingwell. Beauty and dash and a knowledge of how to
seat a table. seem to have been