The meschianza--and love-making: a story of old Philadelphia.--Peasant and patrician: in colonial Boston.--War and flirtation: Miss Wister at Penllyn.--A belle of Delaware: Miss Vining, of Wilmington and Dover.--A disappointment in love: legends from Virginia.--Conspiracies and Cupid: New York and her royal governors.--Born to be a rebel: a pretty Bostonian.--Edwin Forrest's first love: New Orleans in the "twenties."--An uncompromising Tory: North Carolina and loyalism.--The ghosts of Graeme park: a Pennsylvania romance.--Washington as a wooer: sweethearts in Virginia and New York.--A Quaker transformed: the leader of Washington society.