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The Virginia comedians, or, Old days in the Old Dominion

Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886)
  
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PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

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BOOK I.
  
PROLOGUE.
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CHAPTER I. AN INTERIOR WITH PORTRAITS.
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CHAPTER II. A SERIES OF CATASTROPHES, ENDING IN A FAMILY TABLEAU.
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CHAPTER III. SOMETHING LIKE AN ADVENTURE.
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CHAPTER IV. THE ROSE AND THE VIOLET.
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CHAPTER V. POLITICS AND COURTSHIP.
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CHAPTER VI. HOW THEY WENT TO THE PLAY.
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CHAPTER VII. THE OLD THEATRE NEAR THE CAPITOL.
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CHAPTER VIII IN THE SQUIRES BOX.
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CHAPTER IX. IN MR. LEE'S BOX.
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CHAPTER X. ACTRESS AND GENTLEMAN.
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CHAPTER XI. MR. EFFINGHAM CRITICISES THE COMEDY, BETRAYING GREAT CONSISTENCY.
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CHAPTER XII. THE OLD RALEIGH TAVERN.
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CHAPTER XIII. A LOVER, FOX-HUNTER, AND PARSON.
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CHAPTER XIV. HOW MR. EFFINGHAM STAINED HIS RUFFLES WITH BLOOD.
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CHAPTER XV. THE SAIL-BOAT “NANCY.”
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CHAPTER XVI. SEQUEL TO THE ADVENTURE.
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CHAPTER XVII. MR. EFFINGHAM MAKES A FRIENDLY CALL.
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CHAPTER XVIII. THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK.
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CHAPTER XIX. BEATRICE AND HER SECOND VISITOR.
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CHAPTER XX. THE EXPLOSION: SCENE, EFFINGHAM HALL.
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CHAPTER XXI. CHAMP EFFINGHAM, ESQ., COMEDIAN.
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CHAPTER XXII. THE DOOR OF THE “GAZETTE” OFFICE.
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CHAPTER XXIII. A THINKER OF THE YEAR OF GRACE, 1763.
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CHAPTER XXIV. WARLIKE PROCLAMATION FROM THE SQUIRE.
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CHAPTER XXV. MR. EFFINGHAM REQUESTS THAT HE MAY HAVE THE PLEASURE OF ESCORTING MISS HALLAM TO THE BALL.
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CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH A PISTOL FIGURES.
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CHAPTER XXVII. HOW MR. EFFINGHAM'S ROOM AT THE RALEIGH TAVERN WAS ILLUMINATED.
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CHAPTER XXVIII. ENTER SHYLOCK, AND HIS SHADOW.
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CHAPTER XXIX. KATE AND BEATRICE.
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CHAPTER XXX. SHOWING TO WHAT USE A LOAF OF BREAD MAY BE PUT.
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CHAPTER XXXI. WHAT MR. EFFINGHAM MEANT WHEN HE SAID THAT THE DIE WAS CAST.
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CHAPTER XXXII. IN WHICH PARSON TAG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS.
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CHAPTER XXXIII. HOW THE MAN IN THE RED CLOAK THREW HIS NET, AND WHAT HE CAUGHT.
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CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH BEATRICE RETURNS.
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CHAPTER XXXV. HOW BEATRICE PRAYED FOR STRENGTH TO RESIST HERSELF.
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CHAPTER XXXVI. EFFINGHAM HALL—SLUMBERS.
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CHAPTER XXXVII. WILLIAMSBURG: EXCESSIVE WAKEFULNESS.
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. IN WHICH THE TALK IS OF COSTUME.
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CHAPTER XXXIX. HOW MR. EFFINGHAM BECAME THE INSTRUMENT OF PROVIDENCE
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CHAPTER XL. BEATRICE HALLAM AND CLARE LEE.
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CHAPTER XLI. HOW MR. EFFINGHAM RODE FORTH, AND BEFORE MIDNIGHT REAPPEARED EN MILITAIRE.
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CHAPTER XLII. WHAT MR. EFFINGHAM HAD DROPPED.
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CHAPTER XLIII. FROM THE MS.
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CHAPTER XLIV. HOW THE GHOST OF MR. EFFINGHAM ARRIVED AT THE “RALEIGH,” AND CALLED FOR SOME VINO D'ORO.
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CHAPTER XLV. BEATRICE REVEALS HER SECRET.
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CHAPTER XLVI. THE RIVALS AND THE GHOST.
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CHAPTER XLVII. THE GHOST EXPLAINS WHAT HAD TAKEN PLACE AT THE BACON ARMS.
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CHAPTER XLVIII. HOW HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR FAUQUIER, GAVE A GREAT BALL, AND WHO WERE PRESENT.
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CHAPTER XLIX. HOW MR. EFFINGHAM AND BEATRICE DANCED A MINUET AT THE BALL.
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CHAPTER L. MR. EFFINGHAM RETURNS TO THE BALL AND DISCOURSES ON THE SUBJECT OF WAISTCOATS.
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CHAPTER LI. BEATRICE AND THE MANAGER.
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CHAPTER LII. TWO WATER-DOGS.
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CHAPTER LIII. THE LAST INTERVIEW BETWEEN BEATRICE AND MR. EFFINGHAM.
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CHAPTER LIV. ÆGRI SOMNIA.
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CHAPTER LV. THE FLIGHT AND PURSUIT.
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CHAPTER LVI. ON THE RIVER.
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CHAPTER LVII. THE FATHER AND SON.
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CHAPTER LVIII. THE AUTHOR OF THE MS. SPEAKS.
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CHAPTER LIX. TWO SCENES ON A WINTER NIGHT.

  
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