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Leather stocking and silk, or, Hunter John Myers and his times

a story of the valley of Virginia
Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886)
  
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TO THE READER.

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PART I. IN THE TOWN OF MARTINSBURG.
 1. 
CHAPTER I. OLD MARTINSBURG.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCES ONE OF THE HEROINES.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. MAX MAKES A CONFIDANTE OF HIS COUSIN, AND CONSULTS HER ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS COSTUME.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. MAX FINDS MONSIEUR PANTOUFLE IN A GREAT RAGE.
 5. 
CHAPTER V. MAX ARRIVES AT THE TAILOR'S, BREATHLESS, BUT IN TIME.
 6. 
CHAPTER VI. HOW NINA LOST HER WAGER.
 7. 
CHAPTER VII. HOW MAX VERY NEARLY FOUGHT A DUEL WITH MR. HANS HUDDLESHINGLE, ABOUT HIS COAT.
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII. HUNTER JOHN MYERS.
 9. 
CHAPTER IX. TYPES OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. THE DREADFUL MRS. COURTLANDT.
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. MAX KEEPS HIS PROMISE TO MONSIEUR PANTOUFLE.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. MAX PROPOSES A BUSINESS ARRANGEMENT TO MISS JOSEPHINE EMBERTON.
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII. MAX MORALIZES ON THE VANITY OF FASHIONS IN COSTUME
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV. William Lyttelton Esq., Attorney at Law.
 15. 
CHAPTER XV. HANS HUDDLESHINGLE, ESQ.
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI. MORE DIPLOMACY, AND HOW IT RESULTED.
 17. 
CHAPTER XVII. FATHER VON HORN.
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RED BOOK.
 19. 
CHAPTER XIX. MAX DREAMS OF BOOTS, AND YIELDS TO THE TEMPTER.
 20. 
CHAPTER XX. MRS. COURTLANDT PLAYS A MINUET FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT ENSUED.
 21. 
CHAPTER XXI. AT THE “GLOBE.”
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII. THE PLAY, AND IN WHAT MANNER IT WAS INTERRUPTED.
 23. 
CHAPTER XXIII. SUPPER AFTER THE PLAY.
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV. MR. HUDDLESHINGLE CONCEIVES AN IDEA: WITH THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO THAT PHENOMENON.
 25. 
CHAPTER XXV. AN AUTUMN EVENING WITH JEAN PAUL.
 26. 
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LAST INTERVIEW—BUT ONE—BETWEEN NINA AND HANS HUDDLESHINGLE.
 27. 
CHAPTER XXVII. A MODEL LOVER.
 28. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. BARRY.
 29. 
CHAPTER XXIX. BARRY KEEPS HIS APPOINTMENT.
 30. 
CHAPTER XXX. NINA SETS HER WITS TO WORK.
 31. 
CHAPTER XXXI. FATHER VON HORN ENCOUNTERS COURTLANDT THE TALL.
 32. 
CHAPTER XXXII. THE DEAD GO FAST.
 33. 
CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. LYTTELTON IS MADE TO UNDERSTAND.
 34. 
CHAPTER XXXIV. MAX APPEARS AGAIN UPON THE SCENE.
 35. 
CHAPTER XXXV. M. PANTOUFLE'S LAST LESSON AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
 36. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE LAST OF MAX COURTLANDT IN MARTINSBURG.
 37. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. NINA'S WEDDING AND MAX'S LETTER.
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PART II. IN THE VALLEY OF MEADOW BRANCH.
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CHAPTER I. A NEW AND AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. THE HUNTER'S DWELLING.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. INTRODUCES ANOTHER OF OUR HEROINES.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. HOW HUNTER JOHN'S RIFLE WAS BEWITCHED AND BY WHOM.
 5. 
CHAPTER V. THE STRANGER AND SALLY BY THE BROOK SIDE.
 6. 
CHAPTER VI. SHE WAS A WITCH!
 7. 
CHAPTER VII. MERRY-MAKING IN THE MOUNTAINS.
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII. THE DOCTOR OVERHEARS A PRIVATE CONVERSATION.
 9. 
CHAPTER IX. THE DOCTOR COMMENCES A MILD FLIRTATION.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. A CHALLENGE PASSES.
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. THE DOCTOR MEDITATES BY MOONLIGHT.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. A RIFLE-SHOT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII. NINA AND THE DOCTOR.
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV. BARRY GOES A-COURTING.
 15. 
CHAPTER XV. THE DOCTOR FOLLOWS BARRY'S EXAMPLE.
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI. THE PRACTICAL UTILITY OF BURNING A DOG IN THE FOREHEAD.
 17. 
CHAPTER XVII. THE RATTLE OF TONGUES.
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THEY RAN FOR THE BOTTLE.
 19. 
CHAPTER XIX. HOW SHE WORE THE WHITE SILK AFTER ALL.
 20. 
CHAPTER XX. HOW THEY ALL ROMPED MERRILY, AND WHO GOT THE SLIPPER.
 21. 
CHAPTER XXI. THE RECLAIMING OF THE SLIPPER.
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII. THE DOCTOR REMINDS BARRY OF HIS ENGAGEMENT.
 23. 
CHAPTER XXIII. HOW DOCTOR THOMAS EXHIBTED GREAT DELIGHT AT NINA'S SAYING “NO.”
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV. HOW FATHER VON HORN DRANK TO THE GOOD HEALTH OF THE ABSENT AND WHAT ENSUED.
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CHAPTER XXV. TEARS AND LAUGHTER.
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CHAPTER XXVI. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
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PART III. ON THE SLEEPY CREEK MOUNTAIN.
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CHAPTER I. THE TWO STRANGERS.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. IMAGES AND VOICES OF THE PAST.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. THE STRANGER FINDS THE YOUNG MAN WHERE HE HAD EXPECTED TO FIND HIM.
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CHAPTER IV. THE LOCK, AND WHO AWAITED THE TRAVELERS THERE.
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CHAPTER V. THE DOCTOR PAYS A PROFESSIONAL VISIT TO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
 6. 
CHAPTER VI. THE DOCTOR SUGGESTS TO MAX AN OFFICIAL VISIT TO RICHMOND.
 7. 
CHAPTER VII. CAROLINE AND ALICE.
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII. MAX AND CAROLINE.
 9. 
CHAPTER IX. HUNTER JOHN AGAIN: THE WANING GENERATION.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. MR. ROBERT EMBERTON: THE RISING GENERATION.
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE WORLD WAGS.
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII. ALICE'S SECRET.
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV. A BOUT WITH FOILS.
 15. 
CHAPTER XV. THE BRACELET AND THE NOTE.
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI. COMFORT AND HELP TO THE WEAK-HEARTED.
 17. 
CHAPTER XVII. BY THE FIRESIDE.
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII. COMEDY OF ERRORS: ACT V.
 19. 
CHAPTER XIX. IN THE FIRST SLEIGH: OR PROPERLY THE SECOND.
 20. 
CHAPTER XX. IN THE SECOND SLEIGH: OR PROPERLY THE FIRST.
 21. 
CHAPTER XXI. BUYING CHRISTMAS-GIFTS.
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII. THE UPSET.
 23. 
CHAPTER XXIII. THE RIVALS.
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV. MONSIEUR PANTOUFLE'S “OLD INSTINCT.”
 25. 
CHAPTER XXV. STRATEGY: AND A WARLIKE PROCLAMATION.
 26. 
CHAPTER XXVI. DOCTOR COURTLANDT AND MR. ROBERT EMBERTON.
 27. 
CHAPTER XXVII. ALICE.
 28. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. A BOUT WITH TONGUES.
 29. 
CHAPTER XXIX. THE WING OF THE ANGEL.
 30. 
CHAPTER XXX. THE HAND OF THE ANGEL.
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CHAPTER XXXI. MONSIEUR PANTOUFLE.
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CHAPTER XXXII. NON OMNIS MORIAR.

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21. CHAPTER XXI.
THE RECLAIMING OF THE SLIPPER.

The party all rose from table, and the table itself was
borne with the rapidity of magic from the room. Thus
the floor was cleared for dancing; but first the ceremony
we have alluded to was to be gone through with.

The company scattered back to the walls, where ranging
themselves in close columns they looked on in silence.
Then forth into the open space came father Von Horn,
and with a profound bow, and a sign to the music, said:

“Here am I—where is the bride?”

“Here am I—I am the bride,” said the merry voice of
the young girl, as she came into the open space, from the
opposite side, with a slight irregularity in her gait—for
the old man held gayly in his hand the captured shoe.

Father Von Horn bowed again.

“Is this the bride's shoe? look at it well,” said he.

“I am the bride—the slipper is mine,” said Sally,
blushing and laughing.

“I found the slipper—the little white slipper.”

“Do you wish a reward?”

“Yes.”

“What shall it be?”

“The slipper is pretty, and worth two kisses.”

“Kisses, sir?”

“Two of them!”

“Here are my lips.”

As they repeated these words, they slowly approached
each other, and father Von Horn kneeling on one knee,

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with the most profound respect, put the slipper upon the
girl's foot, and then rising, placed his arms round her neck
and kissed her twice, exciting thereby dreadful enmity
among the young men against him.

At the same moment, the whole company commenced
gayly singing,

“Put your shoe on
To keep your foot warm,
And two little kisses will do you no harm.”

The fiddle changing its tone from the wild outrageous
merriment which before characterized it, to a thoughtful
and subdued measure, here glided in, so to speak, and
interpreted the words. The whole was wound up with,
“heigho! heigho!” sung as a chorus, but these “heighos'
were much more like laughter than sighing.

Then the fiddle, as if ashamed of falling into a fit of
musing, and being absent in company, struck up a merry
reel, and the bride, the groom, the whole joyful party
commenced gayly dancing.

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