Tales of a Traveller

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Washington Irving. Tales of a Traveller

PART FIRST. STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN

A HUNTING DINNER

THE ADVENTURE OF MY UNCLE

THE ADVENTURE OF MY AUNT

THE BOLD DRAGOON; OR THE ADVENTURE OF MY GRANDFATHER

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MYSTERIOUS PICTURE

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG ITALIAN

PART SECOND. BUCKTHORNE AND HIS FRIENDS

LITERARY LIFE

A LITERARY DINNER

THE CLUB OF QUEER FELLOWS

THE POOR DEVIL AUTHOR

BUCKTHORNE, OR THE YOUNG MAN OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

THE BOOBY SQUIRE

THE STROLLING MANAGER

PART THIRD. THE ITALIAN BANDITTI

THE INN AT TERRACINA

THE ADVENTURE OF THE LITTLE ANTIQUARY

THE ADVENTURE OF THE POPKINS FAMILY

THE PAINTER'S ADVENTURE

THE STORY OF THE BANDIT CHIEFTAIN

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG ROBBER

PART FOURTH. THE MONEY DIGGERS

HELL GATE

KIDD THE PIRATE

THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

WOLFERT WEBBER; OR, GOLDEN DREAMS

THE ADVENTURE OF SAM, THE BLACK FISHERMAN

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[The following adventures were related to me by the same nervous gentleman who told me the romantic tale of THE STOUT GENTLEMAN, published in Bracebridge Hall.

It is very singular, that although I expressly stated that story to have been told to me, and described the very person who told it, still it has been received as an adventure that happened to myself. Now, I protest I never met with any adventure of the kind. I should not have grieved at this, had it not been intimated by the author of Waverley, in an introduction to his romance of Peveril of the Peak, that he was himself the Stout Gentleman alluded to. I have ever since been importuned by letters and questions from gentlemen, and particularly from ladies without number, touching what I had seen of the great unknown.

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The Marquis stepped back and gazed at him with surprise.

"She paid me a visit in my bed-chamber."

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