# Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure by Edgar Saltus.

- [Epigraph](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/epigraph.md): The chapter presents a single epigraph from Deuteronomy 19:21, invoking a biblical call for strict justice without mercy.
- [Mr. Incoul’s Misadventure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/mr-incoul-s-misadventure.md): Mr. Incoul, having discovered Lenox Leigh's presence at the villa, orders an immediate move to Paris. He rents a house in the Parc Monceau and begins to plot his revenge. He sees Lenox with the dancer Mirette and transfo
- [Mr. Incoul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/i-mr-incoul.md): The chapter introduces Harmon Incoul, a wealthy widower whose wife died of pneumonia after fifteen years of marriage. Initially expected never to remarry, he spends two years in solitude before gradually re-entering soci
- [Miss Barhyte Agrees to Change Her Name](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/ii-miss-barhyte-agrees-to-change-her-name.md): Mr. Incoul visits Miss Barhyte at her boardinghouse to receive her answer to his marriage proposal. She reveals her family's financial distress and her plan to work as a governess in San Francisco, but after a tense nego
- [After Darkness](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/iii-after-darkness.md): This chapter recounts the backstory of Maida Barhyte's past romance with Lenox Leigh at Mt. Desert, their deepening intimacy, and the eventual cooling of their relationship due to financial constraints and societal press

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- [An Evening Call](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/iv-an-evening-call.md)
- [V: A Yellow Envelope](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/v-a-yellow-envelope.md)
- [VI: Biarritz](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/vi-biarritz.md)
- [What May Be Seen from a Palco](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/vii-what-may-be-seen-from-a-palco.md)
- [An Unexpected Guest](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/viii-an-unexpected-guest.md)
- [Mr. Incoul Dines in Spain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/ix-mr-incoul-dines-in-spain.md)
- [X: The Point of View](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/x-the-point-of-view.md)
- [XI: The House in the Parc Monceau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xi-the-house-in-the-parc-monceau.md)
- [Mr. Incoul Is Preoccupied](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xii-mr-incoul-is-preoccupied.md)
- [XIII: What May Be Heard in a Greenroom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xiii-what-may-be-heard-in-a-greenroom.md)
- [XIV: Karl Grows a Moustache](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xiv-karl-grows-a-moustache.md)
- [XV: May Expostulates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xv-may-expostulates.md)
- [XVI: The Bare Bodkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xvi-the-bare-bodkin.md)
- [Maida's Nuptials](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xvii-maida-s-nuptials.md)
- [Mr. Incoul Goes Over the Accounts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mr_incoul_s_misadventure_se/chapters/xviii-mr-incoul-goes-over-the-accounts.md)

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