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The adventures of Harry Franco

a tale of the great panic.
Briggs, Charles F. (1804-1877)
  
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CHAPTER I. Get settled in a genteel boarding house. Grow sublime.
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CHAPTER II. Magnificent Prospects.
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CHAPTER III. Bright and pleasant.—On the high road to riches.
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CHAPTER IV. A change, Mr. Dooitt turns out to be any thing but a gentleman.
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CHAPTER V. Meet with no less than two old acquaintances under very peculiar circumstances.
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CHAPTER VI. Verifies the old saying, it never rains but it pours; I meet with another old acquaintance.
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CHAPTER VII. Contains a Ballad.
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CHAPTER VIII. Gain employment
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CHAPTER IX. Contains the particulars of a commercial operation.
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CHAPTER X. The mystery of the suspicious letter cleared up. Meet Georgiana De Lancey at a tea-table.
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CHAPTER XI. Is short, and of no great importance.
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CHAPTER XII. Georgiana's Conversion.
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CHAPTER XIII. Love and Religion.
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CHAPTER XIV. Encounter my Cousin at a party.
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CHAPTER XV. Letters from Home.
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CHAPTER XVI. A Crisis. Making love.
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CHAPTER XVII. Almost a murder.
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CHAPTER XVIII. Political.
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CHAPTER XIX. The effects of speaking in public.
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CHAPTER XX. Tears and smiles.
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CHAPTER XXI. Arrive at New Orleans, and meet with an old acquaintance.
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CHAPTER XXII. The beginning and the end of my operations.
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CHAPTER XXIII. The great change.
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CHAPTER XXIV. Arrival at New York, and departure therefrom; with many other matters.
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CHAPTER XXV. A Storm and a Wreck.
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CHAPTER XXVI. The last.

  
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