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Margaret

a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom ; including sketches of a place not before described, called Mons Christ
Judd, Sylvester (1813-1853)
  
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AUTHOR'S NOTE.
  
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

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PART I. CHILDHOOD.
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CHAPTER I. PHANTASMAGORICAL—INTRODUCTORY.
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CHAPTER II. WORK AND BEAUTY. — AN IMPRESSION OF THE REAL.
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CHAPTER III. LOCALITIES DESCRIBED.—THE FAMILY MORE PARTICULARLY ENUMERATED.—OBED INTRODUCED.
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CHAPTER IV. THE WIDOW WRIGHT.
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CHAPTER V. THE BEE HUNT. — MARGARET GOES FARTHER INTO NATURE. — SHE SINS AND REPENTS. — THE MASTER.
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CHAPTER VI. WHY MARGARET WAS SORROWFUL. — DREAMS. — LIVINGSTON.— A GLIMPSE AT “THE WORLD.” — ISABEL. — NIGHT AND OTHER SHADOWS.
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CHAPTER VII. RETROSPECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY.
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CHAPTER VIII. MARGARET'S OLDEST BROTHER, NIMROD, COMES HOME. — HE PROPOSES A VARIETY OF DIVERSIONS.
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CHAPTER IX. MARGARET SUCCESSFUL IN A NOVEL ADVENTURE.
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CHAPTER X. THANKSGIVING, OR NEW ENGLAND'S HOLIDAY.—MARGARET HAS HER DIVERSION.
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CHAPTER XI. A REVISED ACCOUNT OF NIMROD AND HIS DOINGS.
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CHAPTER XII. THE STORY OF GOTTFRIED BRÜCKMANN AND JANE GIRARDEAU.
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CHAPTER XIII. RETURNS TO MARGARET, WHO ADVANCES IN CHILDHOOD AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD.
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CHAPTER XIV. THE SABBATH.—MARGARET GOES TO MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME.—HER DREAM OF JESUS.
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CHAPTER XV. MARGARET PASSES A NIGHT AT THE STILL, AND SOLOMON SMITH MAKES HER USEFUL.
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CHAPTER XVI. MARGARET INQUIRES AFTER THE INFINITE; AND CANNOT MAKE HER WAY OUT OF THE FINITE.—HER PROGRESS QUITE EXCITING.
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CHAPTER XVII. WINTER.
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PART II. YOUTH.
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CHAPTER I. SPRING.—ROSE.—MARGARET KEEPS SCHOOL.—SUNDRY MATTERS.—MR. ANONYMOUS.
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CHAPTER II. MARGARET.—MR. EVELYN.—CHRIST.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

  • PART I. — CHILDHOOD.

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    • Chapter I.—The Infant Margaret introduced as in Phantasmagorical
      Perspective 5

    • Chapter II.—The Child Margaret at Home 9

    • Chapter III.—Some Account of her Family and her Neighbor
      Obed 16

    • Chapter IV.—The Widow Wright 24

    • Chapter V.—The Bee Hunt, with an Introduction to Master
      Elliman 29

    • Chapter VI.—Livingston 39

    • Chapter VII.—Retrospective—Taking the Reader into the
      Times of the Revolution 56

    • Chapter VIII.—Nimrod, Margaret's Brother, and his Lively
      Ways 64

    • Chapter IX.—Margaret Practices Divination with the Witchhazle
      75

    • Chapter X.—New England Thanksgiving 80

    • Chapter XI.—Varieties of Nimrod 92

    • Chapter XII.—The Story of Gottfried Buckmann and Jane
      Girardeau 99

    • Chapter XIII.—Training Day 123

    • Chapter XIV.—The Sabbath, and how Margaret went to
      Church for the first time.—Her Dream of Jesus 136

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    • Chapter XV.—A Night at the Still.—Joyce Dooley, the Fortune
      Teller 175

    • Chapter XVI.—Margaret Lost in the Woods.—What Interest
      was felt for her by Every Body 187

    • Chapter XVII.—Winter 215

  • PART II. — YOUTH.

    • Chapter I.—Spring. — Rose. — Margaret keeps School. — A
      Funeral.—The Free Masons 247

    • Chapter II.—Margaret.—Mr. Evelyn.—Christ 297

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