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Title: Richard Vandermarck

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RICHARD VANDERMARCK

A Novel

By MRS. SIDNEY S. HARRIS

Author of "Rutledge," "St. Phillips," etc., etc.

1871

To S.S.H.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
VARICK-STREET

CHAPTER II.
VERY GOOD LUCK

CHAPTER III.
KILIAN

CHAPTER IV.
MY COMPANIONS

CHAPTER V.
THE TUTOR

CHAPTER VI.
MATINAL

CHAPTER VII.
THREE WEEKS TOO LATE

CHAPTER VIII.
SUNDAY

CHAPTER IX.
A DANCE

CHAPTER X.
EVERY DAY FROM SIX TO SEVEN.

CHAPTER XI.
SOPHIE'S WORK

CHAPTER XII.
PRAEMONITUS, PRAEMUNITUS

CHAPTER XIII.
THE WORLD GOES ON THE SAME

CHAPTER XIV.
GUARDED

CHAPTER XV.
I SHALL HAVE SEEN HIM

CHAPTER XVI.
AUGUST THIRTIETH

CHAPTER XVII.
BESIDE HIM ONCE AGAIN

CHAPTER XVIII.
A JOURNEY

CHAPTER XIX.
SISTER MADELINE

CHAPTER XX.
THE HOUR OF DAWN

CHAPTER XXI.
APRES PERDRE, PERD ON BIEN

CHAPTER XXII.
A GREAT DEAL TOO SOON

CHAPTER XXIII.
A REVERSAL

CHAPTER XXIV.
MY NEW WORLD

CHAPTER XXV.
BIEN PERDU, BIEN CONNU

CHAPTER XXVI.
A DINNER

CHAPTER I.

VARICK STREET.

O for one spot of living green,
One little spot where leaves can grow,--
To love unblamed, to walk unseen,
To dream above, to sleep below!

_Holmes_.

There are in this loud stunning tide,
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th' everlasting chime;

* * * * *

And to wise hearts this certain hope is given;
"No mist that man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven."

_Keble._

I never knew exactly how the invitation came; I felt very much honored
by it, though I think now, very likely the honor was felt to be upon the
other side. I was exceedingly young, and exceedingly ignorant, not
seve