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Title: Sevenoaks

Author: J. G. Holland

Release Date: March 1, 2005 [eBook #15214]

Language: English

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SEVENOAKS

A Story of Today

by

J.G. HOLLAND

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Published by Arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons

1875

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Which tells about Sevenoaks, and how Miss Butterworth passed one of
her evenings

CHAPTER II.

Mr. Belcher carries his point at the town-meeting, and the poor are
knocked down to Thomas Buffum

CHAPTER III.

In which Jim Fenton is introduced to the reader and introduces himself to
Miss Butterworth

CHAPTER IV.

In which Jim Fenton applies for lodgings at Tom Buffum's boarding-house,
and finds his old friend

CHAPTER V.

In which Jim enlarges his accommodations and adopts a violent method
of securing boarders

CHAPTER VI.

In which Sevenoaks experiences a great commotion, and comes to the
conclusion that Benedict has met with foul play

CHAPTER VII.

In which Jim and Mike Conlin pass through a great trial and come out
victorious

CHAPTER VIII.

In which Mr. Belcher visits New York, and becomes the Proprietor of
"Palgrave's Folly."

CHAPTER IX.

Mrs. Talbot gives her little dinner party, and Mr. Belcher makes an
exceedingly pleasant acquaintance

CHAPTER X.

Which tells how a lawyer spent his vacation in camp, and took home a
specimen of game that he had never before found in the woods

CHAPTER XI.

Which records Mr. Belcher's connection with a great speculation and
brings to a close his residence in Sevenoaks

CHAPTER XII.

In which Jim enlarges his plans for a house, and completes his plans for
a house-keeper

CHAPTER XIII.

Which introduces several residents of Sevenoaks to the Metropolis and
a new character to the reader

CHAPTER XIV.

Which tells of