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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
  
  
  
  
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

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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