 | Freaks of fortune, or, The history and
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
Susan Meek's Interview with the aged Lawyer—the Woof
and the Warp, 13CHAPTER II.
Showing how the Credulity of the Innocent may be imposed
upon, 21CHAPTER III.
Eugene finds the Letters, 35CHAPTER IV.
A Scolding suppressed, 37CHAPTER V.
Ned's Confinement at Jack Cadaver's House of Horrors—
his Escape, 40CHAPTER VI.
Tim's valorous Adventures, 52CHAPTER VII.
Excitement at Mrs. Dimple's—consolatory Visitors to Pecan
Alley—Ned's Return, 65CHAPTER VIII.
Lawyers vs. the Rogues, 74CHAPTER IX.
The Rogues no Match for the Lawyers, 81CHAPTER X.
As easy to be Happy as Miserable, 8910
CHAPTER XI.
A happy Party at the Widow's, two of the Guests excepted, 101CHAPTER XII.
No Peace for the Wicked—ill-gotten Wealth a Humbug, 112CHAPTER XIII.
Susan's Wedding—Ned's first Glimpses of the World—Summerton,
122CHAPTER XIV.
Ned's good Conduct at School—is visited by his Uncle—
meets with Alice—fine Prospects, 127CHAPTER XV.
New Vicissitudes—Ned's Prospects dimmed again, 137CHAPTER XVI.
A Day of Pleasure—a Night of Misery, 147CHAPTER XVII.
Law and Morality, 151CHAPTER XVIII.
The Flight of Time, and its Memories, 156CHAPTER XIX.
Ned meets with Bainton—a Smile of Fortune, 160CHAPTER XX.
Mallex and Bainton determine to dissolve Partnership, 166CHAPTER XXI.
Ned meets with Alice—“the Course of true Love,” etc., 175CHAPTER XXII.
Fortune frowns, 180CHAPTER XXIII.
An offensive Note, 184CHAPTER XXIV.
Literary Secrets worth knowing, 189CHAPTER XXV.
Ned's Ebullition of Passion—a new Acquaintance—a Letter, 20011
CHAPTER XXVI.
Ambition and its Accompaniments, 211CHAPTER XXVII.
The peremptory Challenge, 232CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Rupture, 241CHAPTER XXIX.
The Field of Honour, 249CHAPTER XXX.
The young Poet and the Novelist, 262CHAPTER XXXI.
Country Lodgings—a Discovery, 271CHAPTER XXXII.
Freaks of Blood, 282CHAPTER XXXIII.
Plots and Counterplots, 288CHAPTER XXXIV.
The young Authors, 297CHAPTER XXXV.
No Rose without a Thorn, 306CHAPTER XXXVI.
Scene in the Church and in the Graveyard, 310CHAPTER XXXVII.
Three Lawyers in Council, 314CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Official Attributes and Vanity of Authors, 321CHAPTER XXXIX.
The Secretary—the Author—the Belle, 333CHAPTER XL.
Minor Characters of the Drama, 342CHAPTER XLI.
The Law's Delay—literary Hopes—the dying Poet, 35012
CHAPTER XLII.
A Spider caught in his own Snare, 358CHAPTER XLIII.
The literary Lion, 366CHAPTER XLIV.
Burial of the Poet, 373CHAPTER XLV.
The quadruple Alliance—Downfall of the Tyrant, 375CHAPTER XLVI.
The old Song, 384CHAPTER XLVII.
The Monster's Doom, 391CHAPTER XLVIII.
Last Scene of all, and Fall of the Curtain, 397
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