THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
CONTENTS
[ 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.
[ 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
[ 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.
[ CHAPTER XXXV. ]THE SPOTTED PAPER.
[ CHAPTER XXXVI. ]CONCLUSION.
TO MY READERS.
“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.