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OUT OF HIS HEAD, A ROMANCE.
There was something strange, people whispered. His grandfather
was so before him. It runs in the family.
Thackeray.
EDITED BY
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.
NEW YORK:
Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway.
(late Rudd & Carleton.)
M DCCC LXII.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
T.B. ALDRICH,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New York.
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CONTENTS.
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Chap.
Page.
I. DR. PENDEGRAST. 11
II. BY THE SEASHORE. 18
III. THE ESTRANGEMENT. 22
IV. A CATASTROPHE. 31
V. THE FLIGHT. 36
VI. TIRED TO DEATH. 43
VII. AN ARRIVAL. 49
VIII. DARK DAYS. 55
IX. AGNES. 65
X. THE RED DOMINO. 69
XI. THE DANSEUSE. 82
XII. A MYSTERY. 91
XIII. THOU ART THE MAN. 102
XIV. PAUL'S CONFESSION. 105
XV. A LONG JOURNEY. 114
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XVI. OUT OF HIS HEAD. 118
XVII. BURNING A WITCH. 124
XVIII. TWO HUNDRED YEARS OLD. 142
NOTE. 145
PAUL LYNDE'S SKETCH BOOK.
PERE ANTOINE'S DATE PALM. 149
A WORD FOR THE TOWN. 162
MISS HEPZIBAH'S LOVER. 173
THE LADY WITH THE BALMORAL. 192
THE CUP AND THE LIP. 206
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NOTE.
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The manuscript which comprises this volume was found
among the papers of the late Paul Lynde, and placed in
my hands, by the publishers, for revision.
It is usual to accompany a posthumous work with
some account of its author: in the present instance, the
friends of the writer object to this, and I am permitted
only to say that Mr. Lynde, — personally a stranger to
me, — was the victim of an hereditary peculiarity, which
increasing with his years, at length forced him to retreat
from the world, to one of those beneficent asylums established
for such unfortunates. There he wrote, dreamed,
and indulged in his vagaries to the end.
“And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,
An old and strange affection of his house.
Himself, too, had wierd seizures, heaven knows what,
On a sudden, in the midst of men and day,
And while he walked and talked as heretofor
He seemed to move among a world of ghosts
And feel himself the shadow of a dream.”
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Of this Romance, produced under such unusual circumstances,
it is not my province to speak. The reader
himself will see, beneath the sombre surface of the writer's
words, the particular humor of the man.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 [1862], Out of his head: a romance [Also, Paul Lynde's sketch book]. (Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf448T].
