Paul Prescott's Charge

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Alger Horatio Jr.. Paul Prescott's Charge

PREFACE

I. SQUIRE NEWCOME

II. PAUL PRESCOTT’S HOME

III. PAUL’S BRILLIANT PROSPECTS

IV. LIFE IN A NEW PHASE

V. A CRISIS

VI. PAUL’S DETERMINATION

VII. PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY

VIII. A FRIEND IN NEED

IX. A CLOUD IN THE MUDGE HORIZON

X. MR. MUDGE MEETS HIS MATCH

XI. WAYSIDE GOSSIP

XII. ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY

XIII. PAUL REACHES THE CITY

XIV. A STRANGE BED-CHAMBER

XV. A TURN OF FORTUNE

XVI. YOUNG STUPID

XVII. BEN’S PRACTICAL JOKE

XVIII. MORE ABOUT BEN

XIX. MRS. MUDGE’S DISCOMFITURE

XX. PAUL OBTAINS A SITUATION

XXI. SMITH AND THOMPSON’S YOUNG MAN

XXII. MR. BENTON’S ADVENTURE

XXIII. PAUL LOSES HIS SITUATION AND GAINS A FRIEND

XXIV. PAUL CALLS ON MRS. DANFORTH

XXV. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE

XXVI. A VULGAR RELATION

XXVII. MR. MUDGE’S FRIGHT

XXVIII. HOW BEN GOT HOME

XXIX. DAWKINS IN DIFFICULTIES

XXX. A TRAP IS LAID FOR PAUL

XXXI. CONVICTED OF THEFT

XXXII. RIGHT TRIUMPHANT

XXXIII. PAUL REDEEMS HIS PLEDGE

XXXIV. HOW PAUL GOES BACK TO WRENVILLE

XXXV. CONCLUSION

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The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity.

Squire Benjamin Newcome, as he was called, in the right of his position as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Selectmen, and wealthiest resident of Wrenville, was a man of rule and measure. He was measured in his walk, measured in his utterance, and measured in all his transactions. He might be called a dignified machine. He had a very exalted conception of his own position, and the respect which he felt to be his due, not only from his own household, but from all who approached him. If the President of the United States had called upon him, Squire Newcome would very probably have felt that he himself was the party who conferred distinction, and not received it.

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“You are very much in error. You will never learn to employ your tongue with elegance and precision, unless you engage in this beneficial study.”

“I can use my tongue well enough, without studying grammar,” said Ben. He proceeded to illustrate the truth of this assertion by twisting his tongue about in a comical manner.

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