THE NEW YOHK PUBLIC LIBRARY 4703133

ASTY, LENOX AND
BILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1948 L

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864,

By GEO. W. CARLETON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

CHAPTER

PAGE

1.-Mr. Douglasg finds a document not in his line.

9

II.-Prudence Potter's Discoveries—The Doctor's Comments...... 14

III–Mr. Trap Holds Forth and comes to a Climax....

24

IV.-Mr. Stuart's Affairs suddenly close up

28

V.-Mrs. John Prideft's Murmurs, Perambulations, Charities .... 35

VI.-Mrs. John Pridefit in the Dark.......

46

VII.-Mrs. Pridefit's Indignation and Consternation

51

VIII.-Mrs. Pridefit takes a Course consistent with Personal Conve.

nience and Pecuniary Liabilities.....

55

IX.-A Chapter with Some Preaching in it.

05

X.-Dr. Wendon's Self-Denial

73

XI.-The Midnight Visitor ....

83

XII.-Dr. Wendon's Dream.......

87

XIII.-Excitement in a Parlor Up Town

36

XIV.-The Wendons talk about the Opera....

109

XV.-Impulses—Tho Arrest

112

XVI.-Fifth House in the block For Sale-Inquire of John Trap 122

XVII.-The Mountain Ride..

131

XVIII.—Carleyn at Work.....

147

XIX.—The Convenient Crack-Dr. Bachune's Wisdom–Orthodoxy

-White Cravats and Puritans......

158

XX.-Carleyn's Tiger in a Trap.....

171

XXI.–Nepenthe on Exhibition..

181

XXII.-Madame Future

189

XXIII.-Carleyn's Journal...

191

XXIV.-A bit of Philosophy about Husbands

196

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XXV.-Nepenthe Writes.....

XXVI.-Carleyn's Conceit..

204

XXVII.-Love, Jealousy and Rivalry..

203

XXVIII.–Nepenthe refuses a Self-Made Man and Worthy Husband.... 2:20

XXIX.-The Music Book Open at the Wrong Place

239

XXX.-Mr. Nicholson resolves to be Intellectual

247

XXXI.-Disclosures .

252

XXXII.-Darkness Without--Light Within...

258

XXXIII.-Prudence Potter's New Discoveries

262

XXXIV–The New Private in Company G..

267

XXXV.-Among the Missing

270

XXXVI.-Baconian Philosophy Illustrated in a Literal Way.

276

XXXVII.-Carleyn's Ideal ....

284

XXXVIII.-The Heart at Midsummer-From the Life

288

XXXIX.-Astrognosia

296

XL.-Mr. John Pridefit goes to the Wedding..

302

XLI.-The Return-The Surprise...

305

XLII.-Mystery Cleared Up.......

307

XLIII.-What the Critics Say

316

XLIV.-Compatibility

321