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Title: The Broom-Squire
Author: S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Release Date: October 28, 2009 [eBook #30354]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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THE BROOM-SQUIRE
by
S. BARING-GOULD
Author of "Mehalah," "Court Royal," "The Gaverocks,"
"Noemi," "Eve," Etc., Etc.
New York and London
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Publishers
Copyright 1895,
By S. Baring-Gould.
Copyright 1896,
By Frederick A. Stokes Company.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE
I. AT THE SIGN OF THE SHIP 1
II. WANDERING SOULS 8
III. THE PUNCH-BOWL 14
IV. WITHOUT A ROOF 22
V. MEHETABEL 28
VI. MEHETABEL IT MUST BE 35
VII. FALSE PERSPECTIVE 41
VIII. ONLY A CHARITY GIRL 48
IX. BIDEABOUT 55
X. INTO THE NET 63
XI. A SURNAME AT LAST 70
XII. UNEXPECTED 77
XIII. HOME 85
XIV. NOT PARADISE 92
XV. IVER 98
XVI. AGAIN IVER 105
XVII. DREAMS 112
XVIII. REALITIES 117
XI
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