BRACEBRIDGE HALL (Illustrated Edition). Вашингтон Ирвинг

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       PREFACE

       THE HALL

       THE BUSY MAN

       FAMILY SERVANTS

       THE WIDOW

       THE LOVERS

       FAMILY RELIQUES

       AN OLD SOLDIER

       THE WIDOW’S RETINUE

       READY-MONEY JACK

       BACHELORS

       A LITERARY ANTIQUARY

       THE FARMHOUSE

       HORSEMANSHIP

       LOVE SYMPTOMS

       FALCONRY

       HAWKING

       FORTUNE-TELLING

       LOVE-CHARMS

       A BACHELOR’S CONFESSIONS

       GIPSIES

       VILLAGE WORTHIES

       THE SCHOOLMASTER

       THE SCHOOL

       A VILLAGE POLITICIAN

       THE ROOKERY

       MAY-DAY

       THE CULPRIT

       LOVERS’ TROUBLES

       THE WEDDING

       THE STOUT GENTLEMAN

       THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA

       ANNETTE DELARBRE

       DOLPH HEYLIGER

      "The chivalry of the Hall prepared to take the Field."—Frontispiece.

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      The success of “OLD CHRISTMAS” has suggested the republication of its sequel “BRACEBRIDGE HALL,” illustrated by the same able pencil, but condensed so as to bring it within reasonable size and price.

      THE HALL.

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      The ancientest house, and the best for housekeeping in this county or the next, and though the master of it write but squire, I know no lord like him.

      MERRY BEGGARS.

      The reader, if he has perused the volumes of the Sketch Book, will probably recollect something of the Bracebridge family, with which I once passed a Christmas. I am now on another visit at the Hall, having been invited to a wedding which is shortly to take place. The squire’s second СКАЧАТЬ