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Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880 [1864], Peculiar: a tale of the Great Transition. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf672T].

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Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine

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Preliminaries

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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett [figure description] 672EAF. Paste-Down Endpaper with Bookplate: heraldry figure with a green tree on top and shield below. There is a small gray shield hanging from the branches of the tree, with three blue figures on that small shield. The tree stands on a base of gray and black intertwined bars, referred to as a wreath in heraldic terms. Below the tree is a larger shield, with a black background, and with three gray, diagonal stripes across it; these diagonal stripes are referred to as bends in heraldic terms. There are three gold leaves in line, end-to-end, down the middle of the center stripe (or bend), with green veins in the leaves. Note that the colors to which this description refers appear in some renderings of this bookplate; however, some renderings may appear instead in black, white and gray tones.[end figure description]

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Title Page PECULIAR A Tale of the Great Transition By EPES SARGENT NEW YORK
CARLETON, PUBLISHER, 413 BROADWAY
M DCCC LXIV

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
EPES SARGENT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press:
Welch, Bigelow, and Company,
Cambridge.

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CONTENTS.

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Chapter

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I. A Glance in the Mirror 1

II. A Matrimonial Blank 6

III. The Wolf and the Lamb 12

IV. A Fugitive Chattel 19

V. A Retrospect 28

VI. Pin-holes in the Curtain 34

VII. An Unconscious Heiress 46

VIII. A Descendant of the Cavaliers 57

IX. The Upper and the Lower Law 69

X. Groups on the Deck 81

XI. Mr. Onslow speaks his Mind 97

XII. The Story of Estelle 105

XIII. Fire up! 148

XIV. Waiting for the Summoner 151

XV. Who shall be Heir? 158

XVI. The Vendue 165

XVII. Shall there be a Wedding? 178

XVIII. The Unities Disregarded 183

XIX. The White Slave 187

XX. Encounters at the St. Charles 200

XXI. A Monster of Ingratitude 219

XXII. The Young Lady with a Carpet-Bag 224

XXIII. Will you walk into my Parlor? 233

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XXIV. Confessions of a Mean White 240

XXV. Meetings and Partings 251

XXVI. Clara makes an Important Purchase 257

XXVII. Delight and Duty 264

XXVIII. A Letter of Business 274

XXIX. The Woman who Deliberates is Lost 279

XXX. A Feminine Van Amburgh 290

XXXI. One of the Institutions 300

XXXII. A Double Victory 305

XXXIII. Satan amuses Himself 314

XXXIV. Light from the Pit 327

XXXV. The Committee adjourns 335

XXXVI. The Occupant of the White House 349

XXXVII. Comparing Notes 359

XXXVIII. The Lawyer and the Lady 372

XXXIX. Seeing is Believing 382

XL. The Remarkable Man at Richmond 392

XLI. Hopes and Fears 397

XLII. How it was done 430

XLIII. Making the best of it 442

XLIV. A Domestic Reconnoissance 455

XLV. Another Descendant of the Cavaliers 464

XLVI. The Night cometh 471

XLVII. An Autumnal Visit 480

XLVIII. Time Discovers and Covers 489

XLIX. Eyes to the Blind 493

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Sargent, Epes, 1813-1880 [1864], Peculiar: a tale of the Great Transition. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf672T].