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PRUDENCE PALFREY
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
A NOVEL
BOSTON
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
1874
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,
BY JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, &
Co.,
Cambridge.
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CONTENTS.
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I. In Which Parson Wibird Hawkins Retires from Business 7
II. A Parson of the Old School 15
III. Mr. Dent and his Ward 29
IV. Dragons 37
V. The Romance of Horseshoe Lane 57
VI. Concerning a Skeleton in a Closet 84
VII. How John Dent made his Pile and Lost it 107
VIII. The Parson's Last Text 134
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IX. A Will, and the Way of it 150
X. The New Minister 166
XI. A New England Idol 179
XII. Prue! 194
XIII. Jonah 214
XIV. King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 222
XV. Colonel Peyton Todhunter 233
XVI. How Prue sang “Auld Robin Gray” 255
XVII. How Mr. Dillingham looked out of a Window 269
XVIII. A Rivermouth Mystery 301
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 [1874], Prudence Palfrey: a novel. (James R. Osgood and Company, Boston) [word count] [eaf450T].