A Little World

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Fenn George Manville. A Little World

Volume One – Chapter One. Duplex Street

Volume One – Chapter Two. Jared at Home

Volume One – Chapter Three. Organic

Volume One – Chapter Four. Jared’s Piece

Volume One – Chapter Five. Saint Runwald’s

Volume One – Chapter Six. Patty’s Mistake

Volume One – Chapter Seven. The Lover’s Petition

Volume One – Chapter Eight. Little Pine and her Teacher

Volume One – Chapter Nine. The Ninth Part of a Man

Volume One – Chapter Ten. My Duty towards my Neighbour

Volume One – Chapter Eleven. Homely

Volume One – Chapter Twelve. Tim’s Ditty

Volume One – Chapter Thirteen. Patty among Friends

Volume One – Chapter Fourteen. Janet

Volume One – Chapter Fifteen. Husband and Wife

Volume One – Chapter Sixteen. Purkis’s Emporium

Volume One – Chapter Seventeen. Mrs Nimmer’s Successor

Volume One – Chapter Eighteen. Official

Volume One – Chapter Nineteen. Richard’s Secret

Volume One – Chapter Twenty. Startling

Volume One – Chapter Twenty One. Trimming the Lamp

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Two. Tim Seeks Sympathy

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Three. Harry’s Employ

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Four “D. Wragg, Nat’ralist.”

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Five. An Encounter

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Six. Good Advice

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Seven. An Alarm

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Eight. The Alarm Quelled

Volume One – Chapter Twenty Nine. Nurse or Doctor

Volume Two – Chapter One. The Poor-Boxes

Volume Two – Chapter Two. Grit in the Wheel

Volume Two – Chapter Three. Separation

Volume Two – Chapter Four. Jared’s Home

Volume Two – Chapter Five. Timson’s Consistency

Volume Two – Chapter Six. Mrs Jared’s Management

Volume Two – Chapter Seven. Between Friends

Volume Two – Chapter Eight. The St Runwald’s Mystery

Volume Two – Chapter Nine. The Love of Nature

Volume Two – Chapter Ten. Mutterings

Volume Two – Chapter Eleven. Lionel’s Check

Volume Two – Chapter Twelve. D. Wragg’s Day Out

Volume Two – Chapter Thirteen. Janet a Listener

Volume Two – Chapter Fourteen. Brought Home

Volume Two – Chapter Fifteen. Prove it

Volume Two – Chapter Sixteen. A Telegram

Volume Two – Chapter Seventeen. In Quest

Volume Two – Chapter Eighteen. Janet’s Kindness

Volume Two – Chapter Nineteen. Flickered – Gone

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty. A Broken Reed

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty One. At Austin Friars

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Two. Friends on Failings

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Three. At Fault

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Four. Screwby’s “Tip.”

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Five. Taking up the Clue

Volume Two – Chapter Twenty Six. Not his Castle

Volume Three – Chapter One. Disappointment

Volume Three – Chapter Two. Confidential

Volume Three – Chapter Three. After the Search

Volume Three – Chapter Four. The New Clue

Volume Three – Chapter Five. What the Shed Held

Volume Three – Chapter Six. River-Side Hopes

Volume Three – Chapter Seven. D. Wragg

Volume Three – Chapter Eight. Jared’s Trouble

Volume Three – Chapter Nine. Expectancy

Volume Three – Chapter Ten. In the Church

Volume Three – Chapter Eleven “Was it Ghostly?”

Volume Three – Chapter Twelve. Another Missing

Volume Three – Chapter Thirteen. An Accident

Volume Three – Chapter Fourteen. A Question

Volume Three – Chapter Fifteen “Coming Events.”

Volume Three – Chapter Sixteen. Mr Purkis does his Dooty

Volume Three – Chapter Seventeen. John Brown

Volume Three – Chapter Eighteen. D. Wragg on Principle

Volume Three – Chapter Nineteen. Richard Pellet’s Visitors

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty. Beating the Bars

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty One. Tim Ruggles Sets Himself Right

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Two. In Chase

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Three. The End of a Journey

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Four. After a Lapse

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Five. Vive L’amour

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Six. At the New Home

Volume Three – Chapter Twenty Seven. In the Reflector

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Jared Pellet sat in the front parlour —pro tem, his workshop – while, to keep the sun from troubling him, Patty had been pinning up the broad sheet of a newspaper over the window, and now descended by means of a chair. For jared was busy working a curious-looking pair of bellows with his foot, and making a little tongue of metal to vibrate with a most ear-piercing but doleful note in the process of being tuned, before being returned to the German concertina, where its duty was to occupy the part of leading note in the major scale of C.

“Hum-um,” sang Jared, checking the current of air, and striking a tuning-fork upon his little bench. “Hum-um; a bit flat, eh, Patty?”

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Jared’s must have been a more than usually patient disposition; for the same evening he arrived at the church at the appointed hour to find that Ichabod had not come, nor did he make his appearance when his master had opened the organ, and seated himself to wait while gazing dreamily in the old reflector before him.

There was a strange life history to be read in that reflector, as Jared dreamed on, recalling his first severe illness, and its following weakness, for many months solaced by the attentions of the usher’s little girl, whose father had taken charge of him when he was removed from school. Here it was that he had laid the foundation of his dreamy future, as he read aloud to his fair little companion. This had been a pleasant oasis in his life journey, in spite of long weary months of suffering, during which he never left his reclining position, succeeded by a long sojourn in a London hospital, and all from an unlucky blow given by his tyrant brother.

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