THE
FAITH DOCTOR
A STORY OF NEW YORK
BY
EDWARD EGGLESTON
AUTHOR OF THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER, ROXY, ETC.
THIRD EDITION
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1891
Copyright, 1891,
By EDWARD EGGLESTON.
All rights reserved.
PREFACE.
Though there is no life that I know more intimately and none that I have known for so long a period as that of New York, the present story is the first in which I have essayed to depict phases of the complex society of the metropolis. I use the word society in its general, not in its narrow sense, for in no country has the merely "society novel" less reason for being than in ours.