# 'Lena Rivers

Author: Holmes, Mary Jane, 1825-1907

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12835

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%27Lena+Rivers+Holmes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

If it be true, as some have said, that a _secret_ is safer in a _preface_ than elsewhere, it would be worse than folly for me to waste the “midnight oil,” in the manufacture of an article which no one would read, and which would serve no purpose, save the adding of a page or so to a volume perhaps already too large. But I do not think so. I wot of a few who, with a horror of anything savoring of _humbug_, wade industriously through a preface, be it never so lengthy, hoping therein to find the _moral_, without which the story would, of course, be valueless. To such I would say, seek no further, for though I claim for “’Lena Rivers,” a moral—yes, half a dozen morals, if you please—I shall n...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/36/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/35/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/40/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/39/index.md)
- [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/38/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/33/index.md)
- [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/37/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/34/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lena-rivers-12835/chapters/1/index.md)