Confession

Edward Clifford has a passionate love for his wife, Julia, yet he suspects her of entertaining the affections of a visitor, William Edgarton. Edgarton is indeed pressing himself upon Julia, but Edward's suspicions are, for Julia's part, more in his mind than in reality.

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• Quotation
• 1: Confession, Or The Blind Heart
• 2: Boy Passions--A Profession Chosen
• 3: Admitted Among the Lawyers
• 4: She Still Soothed the Mock of Others
• 5: Debut
• 6: Denial and Defeat
• 7: Temptation
• 8: Love Finds No Smooth Water in the Sea of Law
• 9: Duello
• 10: Head Winds
• 11: Crisis
• 12: Gone to Be Married
• 13: Baffled Fury
• 14: One Debt Paid
• 15: Honeymoon Period
• 16: The Happy Season
• 17: The Evil Principle
• 18: Presentiments
• 19: Distrust
• 20: Progress of the Evil Spirit
• 21: Changes of Home
• 22: Self-Humiliation
• 23: Progress of Passion
• 24: A Group
• 25: The Old Goose Finds a Young Gander
• 26: The Heart-Fiend Finds an Echo from the Fiend Without
• 28: Morals of Enterprise
• 29: The Hell
• 30: False Luck
• 31: How the Game was Played
• 32: Sudden Lesson and New Suspicions
• 33: Still the Cloud
• 34: A Father's Griefs
• 35: Application of The Question
• 36: Meditated Exile
• 37: And Still the Bitter in the Cup of Joy
• 38: Renewed Agonies
• 39: The New Home
• 40: The Black Dog Once More Upon the Scene
• 41: Trial--The Woman Grows Strong
• 42: Cross Purposes
• 43: Accident and More Agonies
• 44: The Damning Letter
• 45: Verge of the Precipice
• 46: The Unbridled Madness
• 47: Fatal Silence
• 48: Too Late
• 49: Suicide
• 50: Confession of Edgerton
• 51: Doubts--Summons
• 52: Death
• 53: Revelation--The Letter of Julia