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(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
'That single effort by which we stop short in the downhillpath to perdition is itself a greater exertion of virtue than an hundred acts ofjustice.' OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. | |
| CHAP. | |
| I. | Rose Cottage to let. |
| II. | Duly presented. |
| III. | Thinking it out. |
| IV. | Humphrey Statham grows uneasy. |
| V. | Martin Gurwood's Reckoning with Himself. |
| VI. | An Explosion. |
| VII. | Thou art the Man. |
| VIII. | The sealed Packet. |
| IX. | Hagar's Visit. |
| X. | Mr. Wetter is interviewed. |
| XI. | Recompense. |
| XII. | L'Envoi. |
It was probably not without a certain amount of consideration andcircumspection that John Calverley had fixed upon Hendon as the placein which to establish his second home, to which to take the prettytrusting girl who believed herself to be his wife. It was a localityin which she could live retired, and in which there was very littlechance of his being recognised. It offered no advantages to gentlemenengaged in the City--it was not accessible by either boat, 'bus, orrail; the pony-carriages of the inhabitants were for the most partconfined to a radius of four miles in their journeys, and Davis'scoach and the carri