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Ambrose Fecit, or, The peer and the printer

a novel
English, Thomas Dunn (1819-1902)
  
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CHAPTER I., Which introduces a nice little girl, and an accident.
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CHAPTER II., Which is principally about a Baby, a Mysterious Personage in Black, and the Church-Clock.
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CHAPTER III., Wherein I become almost a Spanish Scholar, but lose both my Teachers.
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CHAPTER IV., Which details singular events, including a fresh Mystery, and introduces the Right Honorable the Earl of Landys.
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CHAPTER V., In which I meet with the Dowager Countess, and see a strange portrait.
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CHAPTER VI., Wherein another Chip is thrown into the current of my Life, and I hear from Zara.
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CHAPTER VII., Which contains singular revelations, and tells of the growth of an odd friendship.
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CHAPTER VIII., Which tells of the Entertainments at the Castle, and of a Finale not Rehearsed.
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CHAPTER IX., Which describes a bold Stroke of the Peer and his Steward.
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CHAPTER X., Wherein the Storm becomes so fierce that I Scud before it.
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CHAPTER XI., In which I find a former acquaintance, and malœ new ones.
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CHAPTER XII., Wherein Selgrove quite undoes the work of Coppleton, until we set two Richards in the field.
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CHAPTER XIII., Which, after a brilliant success, brings about a catastrophe and a warning.
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CHAPTER XIV., Which brings back little Zara, and introduces a real Duke.
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CBAPTHER XV. Introducing a new acquaintance and more mystery.
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CHAPTER XVI., Which tells of close confinement, a mysterious gnawing, and how we all scampered.
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CHAPTER XVII. Wherein, after a debate held by all parties concerned, I take flight again.
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CHAPTER XVIII., Which contains a queer story, which the reader had better make a note of.
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CHAPTER XIX., Giving nautical incidents, and an interesting nautical manœuvre, not to be told to the marines.
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CHAPTER XX., Which brings me to New York, where I find employment, and make a new acquaintance.
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CHAPTER XXI., Wherein I cultivate Amelia's acquaintance, and get a nurse.
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CHAPTER XXII. Containing divers matters, and ending with a live ghost.
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CHAPTER XXIII., Which clears up the close of the last, and takes the reader to the dismissal of characters in one of the by-plots.
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CHAPTER XXIV., Wherein we travel to the mountains, and I tell what we meet there.
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CHAPTER XXV., Which tells of a Discovery, not such as I desired, but which turns out to be profitable, and of news from home.
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CHAPTER XXVI. Wherein we have a little love-making and other miseries.
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CHAPTER XXVII., Which makes me and breaks me, and blows Zara on a lee shore.
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CHAPTER XXVIII. In which the ship of the narrator sails unexpectedly into port, with the usual cargo.

  
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AMBROSE FECIT;
OR,
THE PEER AND THE PRINTER.
A Novel.

BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.

NEW YORK:

HILTON AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
No. 128 NASSAU STREET.

1867.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,
BY HILTON & CO.,
in the Clerk's Office of the U. S. District Court for the Southern
District of New York.
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