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Title: Trumps

Author: George William Curtis

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TRUMPS

A Novel

by

GEO. WM. CURTIS

Author of _Nile Notes of a Howadji_, _The Howadji in Syria_,
_The Potiphar Papers_, _Prue and I_, etc.

1861

CONTENTS

Chapter

I. SCHOOL BEGINS
II. HOPE WAYNE
III. AVE MARIA!
IV. NIGHT
V. PEEWEE PREACHING
VI. EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS
VII. CASTLE DANGEROUS
VIII. AFTER THE BATTLE
IX. NEWS FROM HOME
X. BEGINNING TO SKETCH
XI. A VERDICT AND A SENTENCE
XII. HELP, HO!
XIII. SOCIETY
XIV. A NEW YORK MERCHANT
XV. A SCHOOL-BOY NO LONGER
XVI. PHILOSOPHY
XVII. OF GIRLS AND FLOWERS
XVIII. OLD FRIENDS AND NEW
XIX. DOG-DAYS
XX. AUNT MARTHA
XXI. THE CAMPAIGN
XXII. THE FINE ARTS
XXIII. BONIFACE NEWT, SON, & CO., DRY GOODS ON COMMISSION
XXXIV. "QUEEN AND HUNTRESS"
XXV. A STATESMAN--AND STATESWOMAN
XXVI. THE PORTRAIT AND THE MINIATURE
XXVII. GABRIEL AT HOME
XXVIII. BORN TO BE A BACHELOR
XXIX. MR. ABEL NEWT, GRAND STREET
XXX. CHECK
XXXI. AT DELMONICO'S
XXXII. MRS. THEODORE KINGFISHER AT HOME. _On dansera_
XXXIII. ANOTHER TURN IN THE WALTZ
XXXIV. HEAVEN'S LAST BEST GIFT
XXXV. MOTHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
XXXVI. THE BACK WINDOW
XXXVII. ABEL NEWT _Vice_ SLIGO MOULTRIE REMOVED
XXXVIII. THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING
XXXIX. A FIELD-DAY
XL. AT THE ROUND TABLE
XLI. A LITTLE DINNER