Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 [1863], Hannah Thurston: a story of American life (G. P. Putnam, New York) [word count] [eaf713T].
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Front matter
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Preliminaries
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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HANNAH THURSTON:
A
STORY OF AMERICAN LIFE.
BY BAYARD TAYLOR.
NEW YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM, 441 BROADWAY.
1863.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863,
By G. P. PUTNAM,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER.
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TO GEORGE P. PUTNAM.
My Dear Friend:
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When I decided to write a brief letter of Dedication
for this book, and thus evade a Preface—since all that
need be said to the reader can be said just as well, if not
better, to the friend—I began to cast about in my mind
for the particular individual willing to stand by my side in
this new literary venture, deserving of all the fleeting compliment
which possible success may give, and too secure,
in the shelter of his own integrity, to be damaged by
whatever condemnation may fall upon the author. While
various cherished names arose, one after the other, the cab
in which I rode and meditated passed down Regent Street
into Waterloo Place, and my eyes fell upon that door,
where, seventeen years ago, I entered for the first time
one dreary March afternoon—entered as a timid, desponding
stranger, and issued thence with the cheer and encouragement
which I owed to your unexpected kindness. The
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conditions which I sought are all fulfilled in you. From
that day to this, in all our intercourse, I have found in you
the faithful friend, the man of unblemished honor and unselfish
ambition, to whom the author's interests were never
secondary to his own. According to the poet Campbell,
we should be “natural enemies,” but I dedicate this book
to you as my natural friend.
I am aware how much is required for the construction
of a good work of fiction—how much I venture in entering
upon a field so different from those over which I have
hitherto been ranging. It is, however, the result of ne
sudden whim, no ambition casually provoked. The plan
of the following story has long been familiar to my mind.
I perceived peculiarities of development in American life
which have escaped the notice of novelists, yet which are
strikingly adapted to the purposes of fiction, both in the
originality and occasional grotesqueness of their external
manifestation, and the deeper questions which lie beneath
the surface. I do not, therefore, rest the interest of the
book on its slender plot, but on the fidelity with which it
represents certain types of character and phases of society.
That in it which most resembles caricature is oftenest the
transcript of actual fact, and there are none of the opinions
uttered by the various characters which may not now and
then be heard in almost any country community of the
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Northern and Western States. Whether those opinions
are to be commended or condemned, the personages of the
story are alone responsible for them. I beg leave, once
more, to protest against the popular superstition that an
author must necessarily represent himself in one form or
another. I am neither Mr. Woodbury, Mr. Waldo, nor
Seth Wattles.
This is all I have to say. The intelligent reader will
require no further explanation, and you no further assurance
of how steadily and faithfully I am your friend,
Bayard Taylor.
Wood's Hotel, London,
August, 1863.
Preliminaries
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.
In which we attend the Great Sewing-Union at Ptolemy 9
CHAPTER II.
Mr. Woodbury's Introduction to Lakeside 26
CHAPTER III.
An Evening of Gossip, in which we learn something about the Persons
already mentioned 37
CHAPTER IV.
An Interview on the Road, and a New Household 48
CHAPTER V.
In which Mr. Woodbury hears a Woman Speak 61
CHAPTER VI.
In which Lakeside becomes lively 77
CHAPTER VII.
What Happened during the Evening 90
CHAPTER VIII.
In which Mr. Woodbury pays an Unexpected Visit 105
CHAPTER IX.
Spiritual and other Rappings 113
CHAPTER X.
In which we hear a Diverting Story 129
CHAPTER XI.
Containing Two Declarations, and the Answers thereto 143
CHAPTER XII.
Mother and Daughter 155
CHAPTER XIII.
In which Spring Opens 167
CHAPTER XIV.
Containing Conversations more important than they seem to be 177
CHAPTER XV.
Which comes near being Tragic 189
CHAPTER XVI.
Concerning an Unexpected Journey to Tiberius 205
CHAPTER XVII.
Which Solves the preceding one 218
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CHAPTER XVIII.
One of the Summer Diversions of Ptolemy 232
CHAPTER XIX.
In which there is both Attraction and Repulsion 246
CHAPTER XX.
In which Seth Wattles is again Disappointed 258
CHAPTER XXI.
With an entire Change of Scene 269
CHAPTER XXII.
In which Trouble comes to Lakeside 281
CHAPTER XXIII.
Which contains both Love and Death 293
CHAPTER XXIV.
Various Changes, but little Progress in the Story 308
CHAPTER XXV.
In which Hannah Thurston makes a New Acquaintance 319
CHAPTER XXVI.
In which a Wedding takes place 333
CHAPTER XXVII.
Describing certain Troubles of Mr. Woodbury 344
CHAPTER XXVIII.
In which Hannah Thurston also has her Troubles 356
CHAPTER XXIX.
In which a Crisis approaches 368
CHAPTER XXX.
Mr. Woodbury's Confession 380
CHAPTER XXXI.
In which the Strong-minded Woman becomes Weak 392
CHAPTER XXXII.
In which all Retreat is cut off 407
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Concerning Marriage, Death, Gossip, and Going Home 419
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Concerning the New Household of Lakeside 430
CHAPTER XXXV.
In which we attend another Meeting in favor of “Women's
Rights” 442
CHAPTER XXXVI.
In which the Man and Woman come to an Understanding 455
Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878 [1863], Hannah Thurston: a story of American life (G. P. Putnam, New York) [word count] [eaf713T].
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