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Title: Doctor Luttrell's First Patient

Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey

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DOCTOR LUTTRELL'S FIRST PATIENT

by

ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY

Author of "Little Miss Muffet," "Cousin Mona,"
"The Mistress of Brae Farm," "Esther," Etc.

[Frontispiece: "I hope you do not think I was wrong?"]

Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
1900

Copyright, 1896,
by
J. B. Lippincott Company.

_Contents._

CHAPTER I.

AT THE CORNER HOUSE

CHAPTER II.

THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER

CHAPTER III.

AUNT MADGE

CHAPTER IV.

DR. LUTTRELL'S FIRST PATIENT

CHAPTER V.

A VISIT TO GALVASTON HOUSE

CHAPTER VI.

"I REMIND YOU OF SOMEONE?"

CHAPTER VII.

BLOWING BUBBLES

CHAPTER VIII.

"'TIS A LOVE TOKEN, I RECKON"

CHAPTER IX.

THE CHRISTMAS GUEST

CHAPTER X.

A GENTLEMANLY TRAMP

CHAPTER XI.

THE NIGHT-BELL RINGS

CHAPTER XII.

GRETA

CHAPTER XIII.

FRESH COMPLICATIONS

CHAPTER XIV.

AN EVENTFUL DAY

CHAPTER XV.

"THEY WERE BOTH TO BLAME"

CHAPTER XVI.

BUSY DAYS

CHAPTER XVII.

PRODIGAL SONS

CHAPTER XVIII.

AUNT MADGE GIVES HER OPINION

CHAPTER XIX.

DAME FORTUNE SMILES

CHAPTER XX.

"SOMEBODY'S CRUTCH"

CHAPTER XXI.

SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS

CHAPTER XXII.

"YOU MUST NOT LOSE HEART"

CHAPTER XXIII.

"I HAVE COME TO STAY"

CHAPTER XXIV.

"NOT YET"

_Illustrations_

"I hope you do not think I am wrong?" . . . _Frontispiece_

"Oh, Marcus, how happy we are!"

"Olive, look what Mr. Gaythorne has given me"

Mr. G