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CHAPTER I.
Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri 17
CHAPTER II.
He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay 31
CHAPTER III.
Uncle Daniel's Apparition and Prayer 35
CHAPTER IV.
The Steamboat Explosion 41
CHAPTER V.
Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel
Eschol Sellers 53
CHAPTER VI.
Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee
Land 62
CHAPTER VII.
Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism 75
CHAPTER VIII.
Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and
Astonishes Washington Hawkins 83
CHAPTER IX.
Death of Judge Hawkins 93
CHAPTER X.
Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid
Under the Village Gossip 100
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CHAPTER XI.
A Dinner with Col. Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips 108
CHAPTER XII.
Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers 114
CHAPTER XIII.
Rail-Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the
Acquaintance of Col. Sellers 122
CHAPTER XIV.
Ruth Bolton and Her Parents 132
CHAPTER XV.
Visitors of the Boltons—Mr. Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth Bolton
Commences Medical Studies 139
CHAPTER XVI.
The Engineers Detained at St. Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff
Thompson 149
CHAPTER XVII.
The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone's Landing 159
CHAPTER XVIII.
Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye 168
CHAPTER XIX.
Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington 177
CHAPTER XX.
Senator Abner Dilworthy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses the People and Makes
the Acquaintance of Laura 186
CHAPTER XXI.
Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite
Gay—Alice Montague 194
CHAPTER XXII.
Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agrecable to Ruth 202
CHAPTER XXIII.
Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone's Landing—
Philip in New York Studying Engineering 213
CHAPTER XXIV.
Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported From the
Committee and Passed 217
CHAPTER XXV.
Energetic Movements at Stone's Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand
Smash Up 228
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CHAPTER XXVI.
The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations 235
CHAPTER XXVII.
Col. Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views of the Prospects 244
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained
and Their Cost 250
CHAPTER XXIX.
Philip's Experience With the Rail-Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining
Property 269
CHAPTER XXX.
Laura and Col. Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy 274
CHAPTER XXXI.
Philip and Harry at the Boltons'—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth's First
Case of Surgery 278
CHAPTER XXXII.
Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington 288
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
295
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington
Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires 314
CHAPTER XXXV.
About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits 320
CHAPTER XXXVI.
An Hour in a Book Store 329
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Representative Buckstone and Laura's Strategic Coquetry 335
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect
Upon Her 340
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation 349
CHAPTER XL.
Col. Sellers' Career in Washington—Laura's Intimacy With Col. Selby is
Talked About 355
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CHAPTER XLI.
Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love
and Gets Laughed At 362
CHAPTER XLII.
How The Hon. Mr. Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura's Bill 372
CHAPTER XLIII.
Progress of the Bill in the House 390
CHAPTER XLIV.
Philip in Washington—Visits Laura 396
CHAPTER XLV.
The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives 404
CHAPTER XLVI.
Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York 416
CHAPTER XLVII.
Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors 426
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Mr. Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines 434
CHAPTER XLIX.
The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and
Then Cruelly Disappointed 443
CHAPTER L.
Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr. Montague—The
'Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip 453
CHAPTER LI.
Col. Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress 465
CHAPTER LII.
How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington's Interests 473
CHAPTER LIII.
Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re-election—He Becomes a
Shining Light 476
CHAPTER LIV.
The Trial of Laura for Murder 484
CHAPTER LV.
The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly 494
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CHAPTER LVI.
The Trial Continued—Col. Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the
Situation 503
CHAPTER LVII.
The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber
and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate 513
CHAPTER LVIII.
Verdict, Not Guilty!—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—
Philip back at the Mines 521
CHAPTER LIX.
The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results 530
CHAPTER LX.
Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead
in her Chair 543
CHAPTER LXI.
Col. Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave
Washington 552
CHAPTER LXII.
Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last 560
CHAPTER LXIII.
Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice 567
APPENDIX 576
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 [1873], The gilded age, a tale of to-day. Fully illustrated from new designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, etc., etc. Sold by subscription only. (F.G. Gilman & Co., Chicago, Ill.) [word count] [eaf499T].
