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The Octoroon

Chapter 2: THE OCTOROON.
By M. E. Braddon
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The story follows a young plantation heiress and a circle of relatives and suitors as tangled secrets, contested inheritances, and accusations of murder provoke betrayals, duels, abductions, and a public slave sale. A suppressed document and revelations of guilt drive schemes of revenge and ruin, testing loyalties and romantic attachments through gambling-house confrontations, dramatic rescues, and legal peril. Hidden identities and confessions surface before final separations, reconciliations, and a concluding departure from Louisiana.

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Title: The Octoroon

Author: M. E. Braddon

Illustrator: Charles A. Cox

Release date: September 27, 2024 [eBook #74484]

Language: English

Original publication: Chicago: Homewood Publishing Company, 1900

Credits: Peter Becker, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OCTOROON ***

The Octoroon

BY Mrs. M. E. BRADDON

Chicago
HOMEWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Publishers

CONTENTS

I. CORA.
II. THE FATAL RESOLVE.
III. THE USURER'S BARGAIN.
IV. CORA'S WELCOME.
V. A FAMILY PARTY.
VI. PAUL LISIMON.
VII. PRIDE OF CASTE.
VIII. TOBY TELLS THE STORY OF THE MURDERED FRANCILIA.
IX. THE DAUGHTER'S ACCUSATION.
X. THE YOUNG LOVERS.
XI. PAUL LISIMON'S RUIN IS PLOTTED BY HIS ENEMIES.
XII. TRISTAN'S SECRET.
XIII. PAULINE CORSI OFFERS TO REVEAL A SECRET.
XIV. AUGUSTUS HORTON TRIES TO AVENGE HIMSELF.
XV. THE CHALLENGE.
XVI. CAPTAIN PRENDERGILLS, OF THE AMAZON.
XVII. REVELATIONS OF GUILT.
XVIII. THE DUEL IN THE MOONLIGHT.
XIX. THE HUMAN BLOODHOUND.
XX. HEAVEN HELPS THOSE WHO TRUST IN PROVIDENCE.
XXI. THE ABDUCTION.
XXII. THE ENCOUNTER IN THE GAMBLING-HOUSE.
XXIII. THE FATAL DAY.
XXIV. THE SEPARATION.
XXV. THE STORY OF PAULINE CORSI.
XXVI. THE SLAVE SALE.
XXVII. THE EVE OF THE WEDDING.
XXVIII. THE ABDUCTION.
XXIX. THE MEETING OF THE LOVERS.
XXX. THE SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT.
XXXI. THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE AVENGER.
XXXII. THE DEAD RETURNED TO LIFE.
XXXIII. TRISTAN.
XXXIV. FAREWELL TO LOUISIANA.

THE OCTOROON.