Acknowledgment
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.
BE it remembered, that on the fifteenth day of July, A. D. 1830, in
the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
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JNO. W. DAVIS,
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
Yankee in Westminster-Abbey: faithful Account of the Wonders there—
Adventure 1
CHAPTER II.
Isle-of-Wight—Portsmouth—English Inns: Wonders of the Isle 12
CHAPTER III.
Tour of the Isle—Home—Labor distinguished from Exercise—Grave-Yard
23
CHAPTER IV.
The celebrated Wall—The Land-slip—Scenery—Comforts of Dining—
Sand-Rock Hotel 31
CHAPTER V.
English Inn for Tourists—English Beds—Waiters—English Breakfast—
Household Philosophy—Allum Bay—The Needles—The Light-House
44
CHAPTER VI.
Human Love put aside by the help of a fresh Egg—Black-Gang Chine—
Tourists—The Land-slip—Cave at Freshwater 53
CHAPTER VIII.
Adventure at the Needles—The Cliff—The Sea—Perplexity—The
Drawing-Master turns out to be... what? mad? perhaps a
Player? 67
CHAPTER IX.
New Solicitude—Escape—Quarrel—Perplexity— 78
CHAPTER X.
The Cottage—Mysteries— 88
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CHAPTER XI.
Investigations—Domestic Scenes—Authorship in England—Editorship
everywhere 100
CHAPTER XII.
The Smuggler—The Pirate—A Surprise 114
CHAPTER XIII.
Religious Novels—Authorship—Extravagance 124
CHAPTER XIV.
Love—Sketches from Life—Authors 141
CHAPTER XV.
London Society—High-life 151
CHAPTER XVI.
Disclosure—Good Counsel—Gaming 163
CHAPTER XVII.
The young Methodist—Danger of Beauty 174
CHAPTER XVIII.
Education of a sensitive Girl: Simplicity 186
CHAPTER XIX.
Adventure on the road—The Club-Room 196
CHAPTER XX.
The Gamblers 213
CHAPTER XXI.
The Wine Critic—The Play—The Arrest 231
CHAPTER XXII.
The Ring—The Watchman 246
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Catastrophe 257
Neal, John, 1793-1876 [1830], Authorship: a tale (Gray and Bowen, Boston) [word count] [eaf296].
