CONDENSED NOVELS
by
BRET HARTE
Contents:
[HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES]
[LOTHAW, or THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN SEARCH OF A RELIGION]
[MUCK-A-MUCK, A MODERN INDIAN NOVEL, AFTER JAMES FENIMORE COOPER]
[TERENCE DENVILLE]
[SELINA SEDILIA]
[THE NINETY-NINE GUARDSMEN [AFTER THE THREE MUSKETEERS, BY DUMAS]
[THE DWELLER OF THE THRESHOLD]
[THE HAUNTED MAN]
[MISS MIX [AFTER CHARLOTTE BRONTE]
[GUY HEAVYSTONE; OR, "ENTIRE."]
[MR. MIDSHIPMAN BREEZY]
[JOHN JENKINS; OR, THE SMOKER REFORMED]
[NO TITLE [AFTER WILKIE COLLINS]
Contains:
MARY JONES'S NARRATIVE
THE SLIM YOUNG MAN'S STORY
NO. 27 LIMEHOUSE ROAD
COUNT MOSCOW'S NARRATIVE
DR. DIGGS'S STATEMENT
[BEING A NOVEL IN THE FRENCH PARAGRAPHIC STYLE]
[FANTINE]
[LA FEMME]
[MARY MCGILLUP, A SOUTHERN NOVEL, AFTER BELLE BOYD]
HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES.
BY CH—S R—DE.
CHAPTER I.
The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable. The Hardins were in America. Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. Briefly, then, we have disposed of—