The Mississippi Bubble

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The title page gives "THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE HOW THE STAR OF GOOD FORTUNE ROSE AND SET AND ROSE AGAIN, BY A WOMAN'S GRACE, FOR ONE JOHN LAW of LAURISTON A NOVEL by EMERSON HOUGH". The contents list includes, among others, "CHAPTER I THE RETURNED TRAVELER CHAPTER II AT SADLER'S WELLS CHAPTER III JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON". The text says "this young English woman, with no dower save that of beauty and of wit, had not failed of a sensation at the capital whither she had come as guest of the Lady Catharine".

A chapter headed "CHAPTER IX THE DREAM" says "That night John Law dreamed as he slept, and it was in some form the same haunting and familiar dream." The dream scene includes "the figure of a noble young girl, with large and frightened eyes and lips half tremulous". The text says "As all Paris had fought to buy, so now all Paris fought to sell."

About the author

Emerson Hough

Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American novelist and journalist, born in Newton, Iowa. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but gave up practice for writing, and in 1889 became western editor of Forest and Stream.