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       Oliver Wendell Holmes

      The Guardian Angel

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066223939

       TO MY READERS.

       PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION.

       THE GUARDIAN ANGEL

       CHAPTER I. AN ADVERTISEMENT.

       CHAPTER II. GREAT EXCITEMENT

       CHAPTER III. ANTECEDENTS.

       CHAPTER IV. BYLES GRIDLEY, A. M.

       CHAPTER V. THE TWINS.

       CHAPTER VI. THE USE OF SPECTACLES.

       CHAPTER VII. MYRTLE'S LETTER—THE YOUNG MEN'S PURSUIT.

       CHAPTER VIII. DOWN THE RIVER.

       APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII. MYRTLE HAZARD'S STATEMENT.

       CHAPTER IX. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY RECEIVES A LETTER, AND BEGINS HIS ANSWER.

       CHAPTER X. MR. CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER—WHAT CAME OF IT.

       CHAPTER XI. VEXED WITH A DEVIL.

       CHAPTER XII. SKIRMISHING.

       CHAPTER XIII. BATTLE.

       CHAPTER XIV. FLANK MOVEMENT.

       CHAPTER XV. ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS.

       CHAPTER XVI. VICTORY.

       CHAPTER XVII. SAINT AND SINNER

       CHAPTER XVIII. VILLAGE POET.

       CHAPTER XIX. SUSAN'S YOUNG MAN.

       CHAPTER XX. THE SECOND MEETING.

       CHAPTER XXI. MADNESS?

       CHAPTER XXII. A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.

       CHAPTER XXIII. MYRTLE HAZARD AT THE CITY SCHOOL.

       CHAPTER XXIV. MUSTERING OF FORCES.

       CHAPTER XXV. THE POET AND THE PUBLISHER.

       CHAPTER XXVI. MRS. CLYMER KETCHUM'S PARTY.

       CHAPTER XXVII. MINE AND COUNTERMINE.

       CHAPTER XXVIII. MR. BRADSHAW CALLS ON MISS BADLAM

       “Is Miss Hazard in, Kitty?”

       CHAPTER XXIX. MISTRESS KITTY FAGAN CALLS ON MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY.

       CHAPTER XXX. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CALLS ON MISS CYNTHIA BADLAM.

       CHAPTER XXXI. MASTER BYLES GRIDLEY CONSULTS WITH JACOB PENHALLOW, ESQUIRE

       CHAPTER XXXII. SUSAN POSEY'S TRIAL.

       CHAPTER XXXIII. JUST AS YOU EXPECTED.

       CHAPTER XXXIV. MURRAY BRADSHAW PLAYS HIS LAST CARD.

       “How can I see that man this evening, Mr. Lindsay?”

       CHAPTER XXXV. THE SPOTTED PAPER.

       CHAPTER XXXVI. CONCLUSION.

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      “A new Preface” is, I find, promised with my story. If there are any among my readers who loved Aesop's Fables chiefly on account of the Moral appended, they will perhaps be pleased to turn backward and learn what I have to say here.

      This tale forms a natural sequence to a former one, which some may remember, entitled “Elsie Venner.” Like that—it is intended for two classes of readers, of which the smaller one includes the readers of the “Morals” in Aesop and of this Preface.

      The first of the two stories based itself upon an experiment which some thought cruel, even on paper. It imagined an alien element introduced into the blood of a human being before that being saw the light. It showed a human nature developing itself in conflict with the ophidian characteristics and instincts impressed upon it during the pre-natal