Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp), 1810-1866 [1854], Freaks and fortune, or, The history of adventures of Ned Lorn. (T. B. Peterson, No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf620T].
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University of Virginia
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FREAKS OF FORTUNE:
OR, THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF
NED LORN.
BY J. B. JONES,
AUTHOR OF “WILD WESTERN SCENES,” “RIVAL BELLES,”
“ADVENTURES OF COLONEL VANDERBOMB,” “LIFE AND
ADVENTURES OF A COUNTRY MERCHANT,” ETC.
“This work is equal to any of the productions of Thackeray or Dickens, so promptly
republished and so extensively patronized in this country. A bold assertion—but it will
be verified by the thousands who will assuredly peruse the book. Without being sectional,
personal, or partizan—without pandering to public prejudices, or aiming to achieve a parasitical
popularity—the author has wisely relied upon his own powers and his own merits
for success. From the first chapter to the last, the story is intensely interesting. The plot
is deeply conceived and skilfully unfolded. The characters—including churchmen, politicians,
bankers, lawyers, physicians, publishers, critics, authors and lovers—are strikingly
developed; and there is not a line in the book that the most pious mother would hesitate
to read to her daughter. Every page furnishes evidence of profound thought and patient
elaboration. The events occur in natural progression, and the attention of the reader is
arrested by an irresistible fascination.”
—Publisher's Critical Reader.
Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON, NO. 102 CHESTNUT STREET.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
J. B. JONES,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE CHARLES.
PRINTED BY KING & BAIRD.
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Dedication
TO
ROBERT TYLER, ESQ.,
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WHO, WITH HIS FATHER, RETIRED FROM THE
PRESIDENTIAL MANSION—
AS THEY HAD ENTERED IT—WITHOUT FORTUNE:
Dedication
TO
WM. D. LEWIS, ESQ.,
WHO, WITH UNEQUALLED ABILITY, SCRUPULOUS FIDELITY,
AND KINDNESS TO HIS SUBORDINATES,
DISCHARGED THE DUTIES OF AN IMPORTANT OFFICE:
Dedication
TO
ROBERT EWING, ESQ.,
WHO DECLINED OFFICE:
This Volume is most respectfully Dedicated,
BY THEIR FRIEND,
THE AUTHOR.
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CHAPTER I.
Susan Meek's Interview with the aged Lawyer—the Woof
and the Warp, 13
CHAPTER II.
Showing how the Credulity of the Innocent may be imposed
upon, 21
CHAPTER III.
Eugene finds the Letters, 35
CHAPTER IV.
A Scolding suppressed, 37
CHAPTER V.
Ned's Confinement at Jack Cadaver's House of Horrors—
his Escape, 40
CHAPTER VI.
Tim's valorous Adventures, 52
CHAPTER VII.
Excitement at Mrs. Dimple's—consolatory Visitors to Pecan
Alley—Ned's Return, 65
CHAPTER VIII.
Lawyers vs. the Rogues, 74
CHAPTER IX.
The Rogues no Match for the Lawyers, 81
CHAPTER X.
As easy to be Happy as Miserable, 89
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CHAPTER XI.
A happy Party at the Widow's, two of the Guests excepted, 101
CHAPTER XII.
No Peace for the Wicked—ill-gotten Wealth a Humbug, 112
CHAPTER XIII.
Susan's Wedding—Ned's first Glimpses of the World—Summerton,
122
CHAPTER XIV.
Ned's good Conduct at School—is visited by his Uncle—
meets with Alice—fine Prospects, 127
CHAPTER XV.
New Vicissitudes—Ned's Prospects dimmed again, 137
CHAPTER XVI.
A Day of Pleasure—a Night of Misery, 147
CHAPTER XVII.
Law and Morality, 151
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Flight of Time, and its Memories, 156
CHAPTER XIX.
Ned meets with Bainton—a Smile of Fortune, 160
CHAPTER XX.
Mallex and Bainton determine to dissolve Partnership, 166
CHAPTER XXI.
Ned meets with Alice—“the Course of true Love,” etc., 175
CHAPTER XXII.
Fortune frowns, 180
CHAPTER XXIII.
An offensive Note, 184
CHAPTER XXIV.
Literary Secrets worth knowing, 189
CHAPTER XXV.
Ned's Ebullition of Passion—a new Acquaintance—a Letter, 200
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Ambition and its Accompaniments, 211
CHAPTER XXVII.
The peremptory Challenge, 232
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Rupture, 241
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Field of Honour, 249
CHAPTER XXX.
The young Poet and the Novelist, 262
CHAPTER XXXI.
Country Lodgings—a Discovery, 271
CHAPTER XXXII.
Freaks of Blood, 282
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Plots and Counterplots, 288
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The young Authors, 297
CHAPTER XXXV.
No Rose without a Thorn, 306
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Scene in the Church and in the Graveyard, 310
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Three Lawyers in Council, 314
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Official Attributes and Vanity of Authors, 321
CHAPTER XXXIX.
The Secretary—the Author—the Belle, 333
CHAPTER XL.
Minor Characters of the Drama, 342
CHAPTER XLI.
The Law's Delay—literary Hopes—the dying Poet, 350
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CHAPTER XLII.
A Spider caught in his own Snare, 358
CHAPTER XLIII.
The literary Lion, 366
CHAPTER XLIV.
Burial of the Poet, 373
CHAPTER XLV.
The quadruple Alliance—Downfall of the Tyrant, 375
CHAPTER XLVI.
The old Song, 384
CHAPTER XLVII.
The Monster's Doom, 391
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Last Scene of all, and Fall of the Curtain, 397
Jones, J. B. (John Beauchamp), 1810-1866 [1854], Freaks and fortune, or, The history of adventures of Ned Lorn. (T. B. Peterson, No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia) [word count] [eaf620T].
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