"THE BAY PATH," "MISS GILBERT'S CAREER," "BITTER-SWEET,"
"KATHRINA," ETC., ETC.

With twelve full-page Illustrations by MARY A. HALLOCK.

0.2.1

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

343660

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1906

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. Thank a Blind Horse for Good Luck.............

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CHAPTER II. I visit an Ogress and a Giant in their Enchanted

Castle

CHAPTER III. I go to The Bird's Nest to live, and the Giant persists

in his Plans for a Sea Voyage.............

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37

... 50

CHAPTER IV. In which the Course of True Love is not permitted to

run at all.....

68

CHAPTER V. The Discipline of The Bird's Nest as illustrated by two

startling public Trials......

77

99

130

CHAPTER VI. I become a Member of Mrs. Sanderson's Family and

have a wonderful Voyage with Jenks upon the Atlas.......

CHAPTER VII. I leave The Bird's Nest and make a great Discovery. 114

CHAPTER VIII. I am introduced to new Characters and enter the

Shadow of the great Bedlow Revival................

CHAPTER IX. I pass through a terrible Tempest into the Sunlight... 151

CHAPTER X. I join a Church that leaves out Mr. Bradford and Millie. 165

CHAPTER XI. The old Portrait is discovered and old. Jenks has a real

Voyage at Sea.....

...

CHAPTER XII. Mrs. Sanderson takes a Companion and I go to Col-

lege.....

CHAPTER XIII. The Beginning of College Life.—I meet Peter Mul-

lens, Gordon Livingston, and Temptation. . . .

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CHAPTER XIV. My first Visit to New York, and my first Glass of

Wine.....

CHAPTER XV. I go out to make New-Year's Calls and return in Dis-

grace.

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Transier

CHAPTER XVI. Peter Mullens acquires a very large Stock of old

Clothes..

CHAPTER XVII. I change my Religious Views to conform with my

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Moral Practice, and am graduated without Honors.......

CHAPTER XVIII. Henry becomes a Guest at The Mansion by force

of Circumstances.

CHAPTER XIX. Jenks goes far, far away upon the Billow, and never

comes back.. . . ..

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286

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CHAPTER XX. Mr. Bradford tells me a Story which changes the De-

terminations of my Life............

293

CHAPTER XXI. I meet an old Friend who becomes my Rival....... 309

CHAPTER XXII. Mrs. Sanderson meets her Grandson and I return to

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my Father's Home..

CHAPTER XXIII. I take Arthur Bonnicastle upon my own Hands

and succeed with him.

CHAPTER XXIV. In which I learn something about Livingston, Mil-

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327

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lie Bradford, and Myself.........

CHAPTER XXV. I win a Wife and Home of my own, and The Man-

sion loses and gains a Mistress.....

CHAPTER XXVI. Which briefly records the Professional Life of Rev.

Peter Mullens....

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384

CHAPTER XXVII. In which I say Good-night to my Friends and the

Past, and Good-morrow to my Work and the Future...............................
... 392

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. WHAT HAVE YOU COME HERE FOR? Frontispiece.

2. "ONE THING MORE, PLEASE," I SAID; "I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT I LOVE YOU."

3. "JENKS," SAID THE LADY, "TAKE THIS BOY TO HIS FATHER." 4. THE APPEAL FROM MAN TO WOMAN-FROM JUSTICE TO MERCY. 5. CLAIRE'S HAND LIGHTED THE CANDLE WITH WHICH I LED HIM TO HIS ROOM.

6. STEPPING UP BEHIND HIM, I PUT MY HAND UPON HIS SHOULDER, AND SAID: "WELL, HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?"

7. MRS. BELDEN HELD CLAIRE'S HAND.

8. MR. BRADFORD AND ARTHUR ON THE STEAMER.

9. MRS. BELDEN KNELT AT HENRY'S BED WITH HER ARMS AROUND

HIS NECK.

IO. THE OLD COOK REGARDED US IN WONDERING SILENCE,

II. THE WATER-LILY'S SECRET.

12 THE REV. PETER MULLENS.