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Title: The Story of a New York House

Author: Henry Cuyler Bunner

Illustrator: A. B. Frost

Release Date: December 13, 2009 [EBook #30662]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Then out of the door came Jacob Dolph.]

THE STORY

OF

A NEW YORK HOUSE

BY

H. C. BUNNER

_ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. FROST_

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1887

COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York.

TO

A. L. B.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

_Then out of the door came Jacob Dolph_ FRONTISPIECE

PAGE

_"I thumped him"_ 14

_"It's a monstrous great place for a country-house, Mr. Dolph"_ 18

_There was only one idea, and that was flight_ 28

_The light flickered on the top of the church spire_ 32
(_By F. Hopkinson Smith._)

_They hesitated a second, looking at the great arm chair_ 37

_"Stay there, sir--you, sir, you, Jacob Dolph!"_ 41

_After awhile he began to take timorous strolls_ 46

_Jacob Dolph the elder ... stood on his hearth rug_ 51

_And then he marched off to bed by himself, suffering no one to
go with him_ 55

_In quiet morning hours ... when his daughter sat at his feet_ 77

_"Mons'us gran dinneh, seh!"_ 79

_"All of a sudden, chock forward he went, right on his face"_ 83

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