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Title: St. Peter's Umbrella

Author: Kalman Mikszath

Translator: B. W. Worswick

Release Date: April 11, 2010 [EBook #31945]

Language: English

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St. Peter's Umbrella

[Illustration: "JOINED HANDS UNDER THE SACRED UMBRELLA"]

St. Peter's Umbrella

A Novel by KALMAN MIKSZATH

Translated from the Hungarian by B. W. Worswick, with Introduction by
R. Nisbet Bain

[Illustration]

Illustrated

Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London, MDCCCCI

Copyright, 1900, by JARROLD & SONS.

All rights reserved.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, vii

PART I.--THE LEGEND.

I. LITTLE VERONICA IS TAKEN AWAY, 3
II. GLOGOVA AS IT USED TO BE, 7
III. THE NEW PRIEST AT GLOGOVA, 11
IV. THE UMBRELLA AND ST. PETER, 25

PART II.--THE GREGORICS FAMILY.

I. THE TACTLESS MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, 49
II. DUBIOUS SIGNS, 63
III. PAL GREGORICS'S DEATH AND WILL, 77
IV. THE AVARICIOUS GREGORICS, 92

PART III.--TRACES.

I. THE UMBRELLA AGAIN, 123
II. OUR ROSALIA, 138
III. THE TRACES LEAD TO GLOGOVA, 144
IV. THE EARRING, 160

PART IV.--INTELLECTUAL SOCIETY IN BABASZEK.

I. THE SUPPER AT THE MRAVUCSANS, 191
II. NIGHT BRINGS COUNSEL, 218

PART V.--THE