Home Influence: A Tale for Mothers and Daughters
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Chapter 1 A LAUNCH.-A PROMISE.-A NEW RELATION.
Chapter 2 GLIMPSES INTO A CHILD'S HEART.-A DEATHBED.
Chapter 3 RETROSPECTION.-THE LOWLY SOUGHT.-THE HAUGHTY FOILED.
Chapter 4 RETROSPECTIVE.-EFFECTS OF COQUETRY.-OBEDIENCE AND DISOBEDIENCE.
Chapter 5 A HEART AND HOME IN ENGLAND.-A HEART AND HOME IN INDIA.
Chapter 6 YOUTHFUL COLLOQUY-INTRODUCING CHARACTER
Chapter 7 THREE ENGLISH HOMES, AND THEIR INMATES.
Chapter 8 HOME SCENE.-VISITORS.-CHILDISH MEDITATIONS.
Chapter 9 VARIETIES.
Chapter 10 A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN A PASSION.-A WALK.-A SCENE OF DISTRESS.
Chapter 11 CECIL GRAHAME'S PHILOSOPHY.-AN ERROR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.-A MYSTERY AND A CONFIDENCE.
Chapter 12 MR. MORTON'S STORY.-A CONFESSION.-A YOUNG PLEADER.-GENEROSITY NOT ALWAYS JUSTICE.
Chapter 13 AN UNPLEASANT PROPOSAL.-THE MYSTERY SOLVED.-A FATHER'S GRIEF FROM A MOTHER'S WEAKNESS.-A FATHER'S JOY FROM A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE.
Chapter 14 TEMPTATION AND DISOBEDIENCE.-FEAR.-FALSEHOOD AND PUNISHMENT.
Chapter 15 PAIN AND PENITENCE.-TRUTH IMPRESSED, AND RECONCILIATION.-THE FAMILY TREE.
Chapter 16 THE CHILDREN'S BALL.
Chapter 17 EFFECTS OF PLEASURE.-THE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN.-ILL-TEMPER, ITS ORIGIN AND CONSEQUENCES.
Chapter 18 ADVANCE AND RETROSPECT.
Chapter 19 A LETTER, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
Chapter 20 A SUMMONS AND A LOSS.
Chapter 21 THE BROKEN DESK
Chapter 22 THE CULPRIT AND THE JUDGE.
Chapter 23 THE SENTENCE, AND ITS EXECUTION.
Chapter 24 THE LIGHT GLIMMERS.
Chapter 25 THE STRUGGLE.
Chapter 26 ILLNESS AND REMORSE.
Chapter 27 MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONS ERADICATED.
Chapter 28 THE LOSS OF THE SIREN.
Chapter 29 FOREBODINGS.
Chapter 30 FORGIVENESS.
Chapter 31 THE RICH AND THE POOR.
Chapter 32 A HOME SCENE, AND A PARTING.
Chapter 33 THE BIRTHDAY GIFT.
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Chapter 16 THE CHILDREN'S BALL.

If the thought of their promised ball were the first that entered the minds of the young party at Oakwood, as they opened their eyes on New Year's day, it was not very unnatural. Percy gloried in the anticipation of being master of the ceremonies, and in conducting the whole affair with such inimitable grace and gallantry, that every one should dec

             
            

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