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Author
Curtis, George William, 1824-1892
Credits
E-text prepared by Curtis Weyant, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from page images generously made available by the Making of America Collection of the University of Michigan Library HTML file produced by David Widger Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Making of America Collection of the University of Michigan. See www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=abw7901
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Fiction
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eBook-No.
15498
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15498
Release Date
March 29, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.TRUMPS — A Novel
  2. 2.By Geo. Wm. Curtis — Author of Nile Notes of a Howadji , The Howadji in Syria , The Potiphar Papers , Prue and I , etc. — 1861
  3. 3.CHAPTER I. — SCHOOL BEGINS.
  4. 4.CHAPTER II. — HOPE WAYNE.
  5. 5.CHAPTER III. — AVE MARIA!
  6. 6.CHAPTER IV. — NIGHT.
  7. 7.CHAPTER V. — PEEWEE PREACHING.
  8. 8.CHAPTER VI. — EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VII. — CASTLE DANGEROUS.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. — AFTER THE BATTLE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER IX. — NEWS FROM HOME. — “BONIFACE NEWT. — “NANCY NEWT.”
  12. 12.CHAPTER X. — BEGINNING TO SKETCH.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XI. — A VERDICT AND A SENTENCE.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XII. — HELP, HO!
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. — SOCIETY.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. — A NEW YORK MERCHANT.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XV. — A SCHOOL-BOY NO LONGER. — “JANE SIMCOE.”
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. — PHILOSOPHY.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. — OF GIRLS AND FLOWERS.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. — OLD FRIENDS AND NEW.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. — DOG-DAYS.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XX. — AUNT MARTHA.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. — THE CAMPAIGN.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. — THE FINE ARTS.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. — BONIFACE NEWT, SON, AND CO., DRY GOODS ON COMMISSION.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. — “QUEEN AND HUNTRESS.”
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. — A STATESMAN—AND STATESWOMAN.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. — THE PORTRAIT AND THE MINIATURE. — “SARATOGA.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. — GABRIEL AT HOME.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. — BORN TO BE A BACHELOR.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. — MR. ABEL NEWT, GRAND STREET.
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXX. — CHECK.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXXI. — AT DELMONICO’S.
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXII. — MRS. THEODORE KINGFISHER AT HOME. On dansera.
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXIII. — ANOTHER TURN IN THE WALTZ.
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIV. — HEAVEN’S LAST BEST GIFT.
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXV. — MOTHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE BACK WINDOW.
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVII. — ABEL NEWT, vice SLIGO MOULTRIE REMOVED.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXIX. — A FIELD-DAY.
  42. 42.CHAPTER XL. — AT THE ROUND TABLE.
  43. 43.CHAPTER XLI. — A LITTLE DINNER.
  44. 44.CHAPTER XLII. — CLEARING AND CLOUDY.
  45. 45.CHAPTER XLIII. — WALKING HOME. — “HOPE WAYNE.”
  46. 46.CHAPTER XLIV. — CHURCH GOING.
  47. 47.CHAPTER XLV. — IN CHURCH.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XLVI. — IN ANOTHER CHURCH.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XLVII. — DEATH.
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLVIII. — THE HEIRESS.
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLIX. — A SELECT PARTY.
  52. 52.CHAPTER L. — WINE AND TRUTH.
  53. 53.CHAPTER LI. — A WARNING.
  54. 54.CHAPTER LII. — BREAKERS.
  55. 55.CHAPTER LIII. — SLIGO MOULTRIE vice ABEL NEWT.
  56. 56.CHAPTER LIV. — CLOUDS AND DARKNESS.
  57. 57.CHAPTER LV. — ARTHUR MERLIN’S GREAT PICTURE.
  58. 58.CHAPTER LVI. — REDIVIVUS.
  59. 59.CHAPTER LVII. — DINING WITH LAWRENCE NEWT.
  60. 60.CHAPTER LVIII. — THE HEALTH OF THE JUNIOR PARTNER.
  61. 61.CHAPTER LIX. — MRS. ALFRED DINKS.
  62. 62.CHAPTER LX. — POLITICS.
  63. 63.CHAPTER LXI. — GONE TO PROTEST. — “ARCULARIUS BELCH.”
  64. 64.CHAPTER LXII. — THE CRASH, UP TOWN.
  65. 65.CHAPTER LXIII. — ENDYMION.
  66. 66.CHAPTER LXIV. — DIANA.
  67. 67.CHAPTER LXV. — THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
  68. 68.CHAPTER LXVI. — MENTOR AND TELEMACHUS.
  69. 69.CHAPTER LXVII. — WIRES.
  70. 70.CHAPTER LXVIII. — THE INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICE.
  71. 71.CHAPTER LXIX. — IN AND OUT.
  72. 72.CHAPTER LXX. — THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE.
  73. 73.CHAPTER LXXI. — RICHES HAVE WINGS.
  74. 74.CHAPTER LXXII. — GOOD-BY.
  75. 75.CHAPTER LXXIII. — THE BELCH PLATFORM.
  76. 76.CHAPTER LXXIV. — MIDNIGHT.
  77. 77.CHAPTER LXXV. — REMINISCENCE.
  78. 78.CHAPTER LXXVI. — A SOCIAL GLASS.
  79. 79.CHAPTER LXXVII. — FACE TO FACE.
  80. 80.CHAPTER LXXVIII. — FINISHING PICTURES.
  81. 81.CHAPTER LXXIX. — THE LAST THROW.
  82. 82.CHAPTER LXXX. — CLOUDS BREAKING.
  83. 83.CHAPTER LXXXI. — MRS. ALFRED DINKS AT HOME.
  84. 84.CHAPTER LXXXII. — THE LOST IS FOUND.
  85. 85.CHAPTER LXXXIII. — MRS. DELILAH JONES.
  86. 86.CHAPTER LXXXIV. — PROSPECTS OF HAPPINESS.
  87. 87.CHAPTER LXXXV. — GETTING READY.
  88. 88.CHAPTER LXXXVI. — IN THE CITY.
  89. 89.CHAPTER LXXXVII. — A LONG JOURNEY.
  90. 90.CHAPTER LXXXVIII. — WAITING.
  91. 91.CHAPTER LXXXIX. — DUST TO DUST.
  92. 92.CHAPTER XC. — UNDER THE MISLETOE.

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