The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York

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Eggleston Edward. The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York

PREFACE

I. THE ORIGIN OF A MAN OF FASHION

II. THE EVOLUTION OF A SOCIETY MAN

III. A SPONTANEOUS PEDIGREE

IV. THE BANK OF MANHADOES

V. THE ARRIVAL OF THE HILBROUGHS

VI. PHILLIDA CALLENDER

VII. THE LION SOIRÉE

VIII. IN AVENUE C

IX. WASHINGTON SQUARE AND ELSEWHERE

X. BROKEN RESOLVES

XI. IN THE PARK

XII. PHILIP

XIII. MRS. FRANKLAND

XIV. MRS. FRANKLAND AND PHILLIDA

XV. TWO WAYS

XVI. A SÉANCE AT MRS. VAN HORNE'S

XVII. A FAITH CURE

XVIII. FAITH-DOCTOR AND LOVER

XIX. PROOF POSITIVE

XX. DIVISIONS

XXI. MRS. HILBROUGH'S INFORMATION

XXII. WINTER STRAWBERRIES

XXIII. A SHINING EXAMPLE

XXIV. THE PARTING

XXV. MRS. FRANKLAND'S REPENTANCE

XXVI. ELEANOR ARABELLA BOWYER

XXVII. A BAD CASE

XXVIII. DR. BESWICK'S OPINION

XXIX. MILLARD AND RUDOLPH

XXX. PHILLIDA AND PHILIP

XXXI. A CASE OF BELIEF IN DIPHTHERIA

XXXII. FACE TO FACE

XXXIII. A FAMOUS VICTORY

XXXIV. DOCTORS AND LOVERS

XXXV. PHILLIDA AND HER FRIENDS

XXXVI. MRS. BESWICK

XXXVII. DR. GUNSTONE'S DIAGNOSIS

XXXVIII. PHILIP'S CONFESSION

XXXIX. PHILIP IMPROVES AN OPPORTUNITY

XL. THE RESTORATION

XLI. AS YOU LIKE IT

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It was the opinion of a good many people that Charles Millard was "something of a dude." But such terms are merely relative; every fairly dressed man is a dude to somebody. There are communities in this free land of ours in which the wearing of a coat at dinner is a most disreputable mark of dudism.

That Charles Millard was accounted a dude was partly Nature's fault. If not handsome, he was at least fine-looking, and what connoisseurs in human exteriors call stylish. Put him into a shad-bellied drab and he would still have retained traces of dudishness; a Chatham street outfit could hardly have unduded him. With eyes so luminous and expressive in a face so masculine, with shoulders so well carried, a chest so deep, and legs so perfectly proportioned and so free from any deviation from the true line of support, Millard had temptations to cultivate natural gifts.

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"Yes, he would bring real strength to the bank; and, Mr. Millard, there is one promotion I have long had in mind," said the president. "You ought to be made assistant cashier, with a considerably larger salary than you have been getting."

Millard made a slight bow. "I'm sure you don't expect me to offer serious opposition to that proposal." Then he could not refrain from adding, "I believe Mr. Farnsworth and Meadows have also reached that conclusion."

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