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A Tale of the Great Transition

By EPES SARGENT

NEW YORK

CARLETON, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY

M DCCC LXIV

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by

EPES SARGENT,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

University Press:

Welch, Bigelow, and Company,

Cambridge.

iii

CONTENTS.

	Chapter	Page
I.	A Glance in the Mirror	1
II.	A Matrimonial Blank	6
III.	The Wolf and the Lamb	12
IV.	A Fugitive Chattel	19
V.	A Retrospect	28
VI.	Pin-holes in the Curtain	34
VII.	An Unconscious Heiress	46 ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!

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