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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

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• Chapter I. Thank a Blind Horse for Good Luck 9

• Chapter II. I visit an Ogress and a Giant in their Enchanted
  Castle 37

• Chapter III. I go to The Bird's Nest to live, and the Giant persists
  in his Plans for a Sea Voyage 50

• Chapter IV. In which the Course of True Love is not permitted to
  run at all 68

• Chapter V. The Discipline of The Bird's Nest as illustrated by two
  startling public Trials 77

• Chapter VI. I become a Member of Mrs. Sanderson's Family and
  have a wonderful Voyage with Jenks upon the Atlas 99

• Chapter VII. I leave The Bird's Nest and make a great Discovery 114

• Chapter VIII. I am introduced to new Characters and enter the
  Shadow of the great Bedlow Revival 130

• Chapter IX. I pass through a terrible Tempest into the Sunlight 151

• Chapter X. I join a Church that leaves out Mr. Bradford and Millie 165

• Chapter XI. The old Portrait is discovered and old Jenks has a real
  Voyage at Sea 180

• Chapter XII. Mrs. Sanderson takes a Companion and I go to College
  195

• Chapter XIII. The Beginning of College Life.—I meet Peter Mullens,
  Gordon Livingston, and Temptation 209

• Chapter XIV. My first Visit to New York, and my first Glass of
  Wine 223

• Chapter XV. I go out to make New-Year's Calls and return in Disgrace
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• Chapter XVI. Peter Mullens acquires a very large Stock of old
  Clothes 248

• Chapter XVII. I change my Religious Views to conform with my
  Moral Practice, and am graduated without Honors 256

• Chapter XVIII. Henry becomes a Guest at The Mansion by force
  of Circumstances 272

• Chapter XIX. Jenks goes far, far away upon the Billow, and never
  comes back 286

• Chapter XX. Mr. Bradford tells me a Story which changes the Determinations
  of my Life 293

• Chapter XXI. I meet an old Friend who becomes my Rival 309

• Chapter XXII. Mrs. Sanderson meets her Grandson and I return to
  my Father's Home 327

• Chapter XXIII. I take Arthur Bonnicastle upon my own Hands
  and succeed with him 348

• Chapter XXIV. In which I learn something about Livingston, Millie
  Bradford, and Myself 359

• Chapter XXV. I win a Wife and Home of my own, and The Mansion
  loses and gains a Mistress 368

• Chapter XXVI. Which briefly records the Professional Life of Rev.
  Peter Mullens 384

• Chapter XXVII. In which I say Good-night to my Friends and the
  Past, and Good-morrow to my Work and the Future 392