Duganne, A. J. H. (Augustine Joseph Hickey), 1823-1884 [1857], The tenant-house, or, Embers from poverty's hearthstone. (Robert M. De Witt, New York) [word count] [eaf553].
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Preliminaries
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton
Waller Barrett
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Out from the blasting drifts that swept unceasingly along the highway, there suddenly
crept a diminutive figure, with head and body covered by an old plaid shawl, white with
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THE
TENANT HOUSE
OR
Embers from Poverty's Hearth Stone.
ROBERT M. DE WITT, PUBLISHER,
160 & 162 Nassau Street.
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THE
TENANT-HOUSE;
OR,
Embers from
POVERTY'S HEARTHSTONE.
“And ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning.”
Amos iv. 2.
NEW YORK:
ROBERT M. DE WITT, PUBLISHER,
160 & 162 NASSAU STREET.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
ROBERT M. DE WITT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
W. H. TINSON, STEREOTYPER. GEO. RUSSELL & CO., PRINTERS.
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CONTENTS.
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The Thread of Life and Death, 9
Footprints, and Where they Led, 16
The Giant and the Dwarfs, 20
Kolephat College, 28
The Weasel and Samson, 48
Tenants of Foley's Barracks, 58
Mallory the Miser, 77
The Brown-Haired Boy, 95
Noon at the Death-Bed, 107
Mr. Jobson's Visitors, 117
A Family Council, 128
The Neglected Wife, 135
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Margery and the Miser, 150
The Hebrew's Daughter, 159
“An Old Acquaintance,” 170
The Rag-Picker's Revelation, 182
The Yellow Dwarf, 189
The Adopted Sisters, 203
Margery's Sabbath School, 217
Kolephat and Ferret, 239
A Street Battle, 248
Sabbath Night at Mr. Granby's, 259
The Beer-House and its Guests, 267
Walter's Book, 283
A Day in the Orphan's Life, 301
Peleg Ferret's Monday, 322
The Inventor's Wife, 347
The Ruined Gamester, 356
Scenes in Kolephat College, 368
The Catholic Child, 387
The Tempter, 399
The Garroters, 412
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The Dying Gamester, 420
The Poison-Phial, 431
The God-mother's Home, 439
The Fiery Trial, 459
Unravelment, 480
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TO HUMAN HEARTS AND CHRISTIAN SOULS.
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The author dedicates the&longs;e pages; not the product of
fancy, but ba&longs;ed upon facts of real life. He de&longs;ires that
they shall be peru&longs;ed by the virtuous and thoughtful,
and tru&longs;ts that, as chronicles of the poor, they will intere&longs;t
the sympathies of the opulent. That they may have some
little influence in directing attention to the terrible evils
that exi&longs;t in our communities—the sad social anomalies that
&longs;tartle the political economi&longs;t, and grieve the philanthropi&longs;t—
is the earne&longs;t prayer of one who has gone down into the
moral wilderne&longs;s of our over-crowded population, and witnessed
the &longs;truggle of Good again&longs;t Evil. With the legi&longs;lator,
the capitali&longs;t, and the friend of our fellow-creatures, he will
thereafter leave the “Tenant House.”
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Duganne, A. J. H. (Augustine Joseph Hickey), 1823-1884 [1857], The tenant-house, or, Embers from poverty's hearthstone. (Robert M. De Witt, New York) [word count] [eaf553].
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