[INTRODUCTION]
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| [PART I.] |
| [TO DOCTOR] |
| [CHAPTER ONE. Some sage Observations that naturally introduce our important History] |
| [CHAPTER TWO. A superficial View of our Hero’s Infancy] |
| [CHAPTER THREE. He is initiated in a Military Life, and has the good Fortune to acquire a generous Patron] |
| [CHAPTER FOUR. His Mother’s Prowess and Death; together with some Instances of his own Sagacity] |
| [CHAPTER FIVE. A brief Detail of his Education] |
| [CHAPTER SIX. He meditates Schemes of Importance] |
| [CHAPTER SEVEN. Engages in Partnership with a female Associate, in order to put his Talents in Action] |
| [CHAPTER EIGHT. Their first Attempt; with a Digression which some Readers may think impertinent] |
| [CHAPTER NINE. The Confederates change their Battery, and achieve a remarkable Adventure] |
| [CHAPTER TEN. They proceed to levy Contributions with great Success, until our Hero sets out with the young Count for Vienna, where he enters into League with another Adventurer] |
| [CHAPTER ELEVEN. Fathom makes various Efforts in the World of Gallantry] |
| [CHAPTER TWELVE. He effects a Lodgment in the House of a rich Jeweller] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTEEN. He is exposed to a most perilous Incident in the Course of his Intrigue with the Daughter] |
| [CHAPTER FOURTEEN. He is reduced to a dreadful Dilemma, in consequence of an Assignation with the Wife] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTEEN. But at length succeeds in his Attempt upon both] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTEEN. His Success begets a blind Security, by which he is once again well-nigh entrapped in his Dulcinea’s Apartment] |
| [CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Step-dame’s Suspicions being awakened, she lays a Snare for our Adventurer, from which he is delivered by the Interposition of his Good Genius] |
| [CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Our Hero departs from Vienna, and quits the Domain of Venus for the rough Field of Mars] |
| [CHAPTER NINETEEN. He puts himself under the Guidance of his Associate, and stumbles upon the French Camp, where he finishes his Military Career] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY. He prepares a Stratagem, but finds himself countermined—Proceeds on his Journey, and is overtaken by a terrible Tempest] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. He falls upon Scylla, seeking to avoid Charybdis.] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. He arrives at Paris, and is pleased with his Reception] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. Acquits himself with Address in a Nocturnal Riot] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. He overlooks the Advances of his Friends, and smarts severely for his Neglect] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. He bears his Fate like a Philosopher; and contracts acquaintance with a very remarkable Personage] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. The History of the Noble Castilian] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. A flagrant Instance of Fathom’s Virtue, in the Manner of his Retreat to England] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. Some Account of his Fellow-Travellers] |
| [CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. Another providential Deliverance from the Effects of the Smuggler’s ingenious Conjecture] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY. The singular Manner of Fathom’s Attack and Triumph over the Virtue of the fair Elenor] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. He by accident encounters his old Friend, with whom he holds a Conference, and renews a Treaty] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO. He appears in the great World with universal Applause and Admiration] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE. He attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the minor Knights of his own Order, over whom he obtains a complete Victory] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR. He attracts the Envy and Ill Offices of the minor Knights of his own Order, over whom he obtains a complete Victory] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole Season] |
[CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. The Biter is Bit]
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| [PART II.] |
| [CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE. Our Adventurer is made acquainted with a new Scene of Life] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY. He contemplates Majesty and its Satellites in Eclipse] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-ONE. One Quarrel is compromised, and another decided by unusual Arms] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-TWO. An unexpected Rencontre, and a happy Revolution in the Affairs of our Adventurer] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-THREE. Fathom justifies the Proverb, “What’s bred in the Bone will never come out of the Flesh”] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR. Fathom justifies the Proverb, “What’s bred in the Bone will never come out of the Flesh”] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE. Renaldo’s Distress deepens, and Fathom’s Plot thickens] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-SIX. Our Adventurer becomes absolute in his Power over the Passions of his Friend, and effects one half of his Aim] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN. The Art of Borrowing further explained, and an Account of a Strange Phenomenon] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT. Count Fathom unmasks his Battery; is repulsed; and varies his Operations without effect] |
| [CHAPTER FORTY-NINE. Monimia’s Honour is protected by the Interposition of Heaven] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY. Fathom shifts the Scene, and appears in a new Character] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE. Triumphs over a Medical Rival] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO. Repairs to the Metropolis, and enrols himself among the Sons of Paean] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE. Acquires Employment in consequence of a lucky Miscarriage] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR. His Eclipse, and gradual Declination] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE. After divers unsuccessful Efforts, he has recourse to the Matrimonial Noose] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX. In which his Fortune is effectually strangled] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN. Fathom being safely housed, the Reader is entertained with a Retrospect] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT. Renaldo abridges the Proceedings at Law, and approves himself the Son of his Father] |
| [CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE. He is the Messenger of Happiness to his Sister, who removes the film which had long obstructed his Penetration, with regard to Count Fathom] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY. He recompenses the Attachment of his Friend; and receives a Letter that reduces him to the Verge of Death and Distraction] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE. Renaldo meets with a living Monument of Justice, and encounters a Personage of some Note in these Memoirs] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO. His Return to England, and Midnight Pilgrimage to Monimia’s Tomb] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE. He renews the Rites of Sorrow, and is entranced] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR. The Mystery unfolded—Another Recognition, which, it is to be hoped, the Reader could not foresee] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE. A retrospective Link, necessary for the Concatenation of these Memoirs] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX. The History draws near a Period] |
| [CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN. The Longest and the Last] |