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People I have met, or, Pictures of society and people of mark, drawn under a thin veil of fiction

Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1806-1867)
  
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[acknowledgements]
  
PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS.

  
A REVELATION OF A PREVIOUS LIFE.
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THE PHANTOM-HEAD UPON THE TABLE.
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CHAPTER I. SHOWING THE HUMILIATION OF THE BARRIERS OF HIGH-LIFE.
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CHAPTER II. SHOWING A GENTLEMAN'S NEED OF A HORSE.
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CHAPTER III. SHOWING WHAT MAKES A HORSE-STEALER A GENTLEMAN.
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CHAPTER IV.
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GETTING TO WINDWARD.
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CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II.
  
TWO BUCKETS IN A WELL.
  
LIGHT VERVAIN.
  
BROWN'S DAY WITH THE MIMPSON'S.
  
MR. AND MRS. FOLLETT; OR, THE DANGERS OF MEDDLING WITH MARRIED PEOPLE.
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LADY RAVELGOLD.
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CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II.
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CHAPTER III.
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CHAPTER IV.
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CHAPTER V.
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CHAPTER VI.
  
KATE CREDIFORD.
  
FLIRTATION AND FOX-CHASING.
  
BEWARE OF DOGS AND WALTZING.
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THE REVENGE OF THE SIGNOR BASIL.
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PART I.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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VI.
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PART II.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
  
LOVE AND DIPLOMACY.
  
THE MAD HOUSE OF PALERMO.
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AN UP-TOWN CRISIS; OR, MRS. LUTHER LEATHERS'S FIRST “FRIDAY MORNING.”
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PART II. THE LEATHERS'S BASEMENT.
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PART III. WILL MRS. INGULPHUS CALL?
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PART IV. WHAT BROUGHT MRS. INGULPHUS.
  
THE ICY VEIL; OR, THE KEYS TO THREE HEARTS THOUGHT COLD.
  
BORN TO LOVE PIGS AND CHICKENS.
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THOSE UNGRATEFUL BLIDGIMSES.
  
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THE STORY.
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BELLES OF NEW YORK.
  
MRS. VERE.
  
MISS AYMAR, OF NEW YORK.
  
FANNY TRELLINGER.
  
MRS. LETTRELL.
  
HOPE CHASMAR.
  
JENNY EVELAND.

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PEOPLE I HAVE MET;
OR
PICTURES OF SOCIETY AND PEOPLE OF MARK,
DRAWN UNDER A THIN VEIL OF FICTION.

BY N. PARKER WILLIS.

NEW YORK:
BAKER AND SCRIBNER,
145 NASSAU STREET AND 36 PARK ROW.
© 1850.
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