Vice Versa: or, A Lesson to Fathers

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Anstey F.. Vice Versa: or, A Lesson to Fathers

PREFACE

1. Black Monday

2. A Grand Transformation Scene

3. In the Toils

4. A Minnow amongst Tritons

5. Disgrace

6. Learning and Accomplishments

7. Cutting the Knot

8. Unbending the Bow

9. A Letter from Home

10. The Complete Letter-Writer

11. A Day of Rest

12. Against Time

13. A Respite

14. An Error of Judgment

15. The Rubicon

16. Hard Pressed

17. A Perfidious Ally

18. Run to Earth

19. The Reckoning

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On a certain Monday evening late in January, 1881, Paul Bultitude, Esq. (of Mincing Lane, Colonial Produce Merchant), was sitting alone in his dining-room at Westbourne Terrace after dinner.

The room was a long and lofty one, furnished in the stern uncompromising style of the Mahogany Age, now supplanted by the later fashions of decoration which, in their outset original and artistic, seem fairly on the way to become as meaningless and conventional.

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"I – I hope so."

"I mean you will go on sitting here, and I shall go off to Grimstone's?"

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