"Yes, Jonathan, you and I must part, but we part good friends: you have been a n.o.ble lover: may you make the girl a good and happy husband!
Jennings has been robbing me and those about me for years: it is impossible to separate specially my rights from his extortions: but all, as I have said, shall be satisfied: meanwhile, his h.o.a.rds are mine. I appropriate one half of them for other claimants; the remaining half I give to Grace Floyd as dower. Don"t be a fool, Jonathan, and blubber; look to your Grace there, she"s fainting--you can set up landlord for yourself, do you hear?--for I make yours honestly, as much as Roger found in his now lucky Crock of Gold."
Poor Roger, quite unmanned, could only wave his hat, and--the curtain falls amid thunders of applause.
END OF THE CROCK OF GOLD.
THE TWINS;
A DOMESTIC NOVEL.
BY
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, A.M., F.R.S.
AUTHOR OF
PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE.
1. Place; Time; Circ.u.mstance 157
2. The Heroes 161
3. The Arrival 166
4. The General and his Ward 168
5. Jealousy 172
6. The Confidante 174
7. The Course of True Love 177
8. The Mystery 180
9. How to clear it up 182
10. Aunt Green"s Legacy 184
11. Preparations, and Departure 188
12. The Escape 192
13. News of Charles 196
14. The Tete-a-Tete 199
15. Satisfaction 202
16. How Charles Fared 204
17. The General"s Return 207
18. Intercalary 211
19. Julian"s Departure 213
20. Enlightenment 215
21. Charles at Madras 216
22. Revelations 219
23. Convalescence 222
24. Charles Delayed 224
25. Trials 229
26. Julian 231
27. Charles"s Return, &c. 233
28. Julian turns up, &c. 237
29. The old Scotch Nurse goes home 238
30. Final 241
CHAPTER I.