Fiction · 1886
A Heart-Song of To-day (Disturbed by Fire from the 'Unruly Member')
A Novel
In her Eaton Square drawing room, the wealthy widow Mrs. Tompkins offers Captain Trevalyon her hand, her fortune, and her devotion — only for Major George Delrose to step out from behind the curtains, where he has been listening the whole time. Spurned and furious, Delrose and Mrs. Tompkins turn instead to wrecking Trevalyon's growing attachment to Miss Vaura Vernon, reviving old rumors of a hidden wife to keep the two apart.
Annie Gregg Savigny published the novel, her first, in Toronto in 1886.
Bibliomancer restores the 1886 text exactly as Savigny wrote it.
Contents
- Chapter I — A Pretty Woman Lays a Plot, and Hires a Gardener
- Chapter II — A Rare Society Bouquet
- Chapter III — The Fates Spin with Threads of Black
- Chapter IV — Of Madame
- Chapter V — Madame Shuffles the Cards
- Chapter VI — Love and Love-Making
- Chapter VII — Orestes and Pylades
- Chapter VIII — Madame and Her Gardener
- Chapter IX — Vaura in a Medley
- Chapter X — Velvet Paws Conceal Claws
- Chapter XI — On the Wing
- Chapter XII — Soaring!—Thence to Things of Earth
- Chapter XIII — Adam
- Chapter XIV — Of Lionel Trevalyon
- Chapter XV — Heart-Stirs
- Chapter XVI — Lifting the Vail
- Chapter XVII — Chic Aujourd’hui
- Chapter XVIII — Theatre Francais
- Chapter XIX — For a Fair Woman Face
- Chapter XX — Quickened Heart-Beats
- Chapter XXI — La Belle Vernon
- Chapter XXII — The Blind God Takes Sure Aim
- Chapter XXIII — The Web of Difficulty
- Chapter XXIV — Slain by a Woman
- Chapter XXV — In the Sunbeams
- Chapter XXVI — A Mountain Idyl, or an Alpine Romance
- Chapter XXVII — Grundy’s Lash Causes Heart-Ache
- Chapter XXVIII — Heart-Stirs to Divine Music
- Chapter XXIX — The Unruly Member Is Heard
- Chapter XXX — Woman Against Woman
- Chapter XXXI — Society’s Votaries Smile Though They Die
- Chapter XXXII — Trevalyon Gone, Vaura Kills Time
- Chapter XXXIII — Warm Words Bridge Cruel Distance
- Chapter XXXIV — Bric-a-Brac
- Chapter XXXV — Heart to Heart
- Chapter XXXVI — Knaves Are Trumps
- Chapter XXXVII — Wee White Mouse Wins a Point
- Chapter XXXVIII — Madame in a Feline Mood
- Chapter XXXIX — Trevalyon Throws Down the Glove
- Chapter XL — Black Delrose Uses Emphatic Language
- Chapter XLI — An Expose, Society on Tip-Toe
- Chapter XLII — All the World’s a Stage
- Chapter XLIII — Wee Detective Plays a Winning Card
- Chapter XLIV — Dual Solitude
- Chapter XLV — Black Delrose as a Marksman
- Chapter XLVI — Discord Ends; Heart’s-Ease at Last
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1901 · Victorian
Annie Gregg Savigny (née Ryan, c. 1838–1901) was a Toronto novelist, probably born in England, who turned to fiction after the 1881 death of her husband, the surveyor Hugh Paine Savigny. A Heart-Song of To-day (1886) was her first novel, followed by A Romance of Toronto (1888) and Three Wedding Rings (1892). She was also an active amateur astronomer, presenting papers on Mars and on the Lowell Observatory's planetary observations to Toronto's Astronomical and Physical Society, and a benefactor of the Toronto Humane Society. She died in Toronto on 10 July 1901.
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