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The Guardian Angel. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Автор произведения Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian Angel
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066223939
Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV. BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M.
CHAPTER VI. THE USE OF SPECTACLES.
CHAPTER VII. MYRTLE'S LETTER—THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII. MYRTLE HAZARD'S STATEMENT.
CHAPTER IX. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY RECEIVES A LETTER, AND BEGINS HIS ANSWER.
CHAPTER X. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER—WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XI. VEXED WITH A DEVIL.
CHAPTER XV. ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS.
CHAPTER XVII. SAINT AND SINNER
CHAPTER XIX. SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN.
CHAPTER XX. THE SECOND MEETING.
CHAPTER XXII. A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
CHAPTER XXIII. MYRTLE HAZARD AT THE CITY SCHOOL.
CHAPTER XXIV. MUSTERING OF FORCES.
CHAPTER XXV. THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER.
CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. CLYMER KETCHUM'S PARTY.
CHAPTER XXVII. MINE AND COUNTERMINE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. MR. BRADSHAW CALLS ON MISS BADLAM
CHAPTER XXIX. MISTRESS KITTY FAGAN CALLS ON MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY.
CHAPTER XXX. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM.
CHAPTER XXXI. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CONSULTS WITH JACOB PENHALLOW, ESQUIRE
CHAPTER XXXII. SUSAN POSEY'S TRIAL.
CHAPTER XXXIII. JUST AS YOU EXPECTED.
CHAPTER XXXIV. MURRAY BRADSHAW PLAYS HIS LAST CARD.
“How can I see that man this evening, Mr. Lindsay?”
CHAPTER XXXV. THE SPOTTED PAPER.
TO MY READERS.
“A new Preface” is, I find, promised with my story. If there are any among my readers who loved Aesop's Fables chiefly on account of the Moral appended, they will perhaps be pleased to turn backward and learn what I have to say here.
This tale forms a natural sequence to a former one, which some may remember, entitled “Elsie Venner.” Like that—it is intended for two classes of readers, of which the smaller one includes the readers of the “Morals” in Aesop and of this Preface.
The first of the two stories based itself upon an experiment which some thought cruel, even on paper. It imagined an alien element introduced into the blood of a human being before that being saw the light. It showed a human nature developing itself in conflict with the ophidian characteristics and instincts impressed upon it during the pre-natal