Transcriber's Note:
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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 I. | |
| CHAP. | |
| I. | Breaking the News. |
| II. | A confidential Mission. |
| III. | A Check. |
| IV. | Take her up tenderly. |
| V. | Parson's Work. |
| VI. | Run to Earth. |
| VII. | A Third in the Plot. |
| VIII. | So far successful. |
| IX. | The small Hours in London. |
| X. | The small houra in Hendon. |
| XI. | Mrs. Calverley loses her Husband. |
Doctor Haughton stared hard at his old friend, who had just made suchan astounding announcement--stared hard, but said nothing. Naturally areticent man, in his capacity of physician he had had a great many oddthings confided to him in his life, and had consequently not merelylearned the value of silence, but had almost lost the faculty ofastonishment.
After a minute's pause he turned to the little crowd, and said in aquiet, business-like way, 'Just four of you lift this poor gentleman'sbody, two at the head and two at the feet, and carry it over to thetavern I see on the other side of the road.--Gibson,' to the coachman,'you go with them and pay them for their trouble. See it properlyplaced on a bed or sofa somewh