Trumps

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Title: Trumps
Author: George William Curtis
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TRUMPS
A Novel
by
GEO. WM. CURTIS
Author of Nile Notes of a Howadji, The Howadji in Syria, The Potiphar
Papers, Prue and I, etc.
1861

CONTENTS

Chapter
I. SCHOOL BEGINS II. HOPE WAYNE III. AVE MARIA! IV.
NIGHT V. PEEWEE PREACHING VI. EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS
VII. CASTLE DANGEROUS VIII. AFTER THE BATTLE IX. NEWS
FROM HOME X. BEGINNING TO SKETCH XI. A VERDICT AND
A SENTENCE XII. HELP, HO! XIII. SOCIETY XIV. A NEW YORK
MERCHANT XV. A SCHOOL-BOY NO LONGER XVI.
PHILOSOPHY XVII. OF GIRLS AND FLOWERS XVIII. OLD
FRIENDS AND NEW XIX. DOG-DAYS XX. AUNT MARTHA XXI.
THE CAMPAIGN XXII. THE FINE ARTS XXIII. BONIFACE
NEWT, SON, & CO., DRY GOODS ON COMMISSION XXXIV.
"QUEEN AND HUNTRESS" XXV. A STATESMAN--AND
STATESWOMAN XXVI. THE PORTRAIT AND THE MINIATURE
XXVII. GABRIEL AT HOME XXVIII. BORN TO BE A
BACHELOR XXIX. MR. ABEL NEWT, GRAND STREET XXX.
CHECK XXXI. AT DELMONICO'S XXXII. MRS. THEODORE
KINGFISHER AT HOME. On dansera XXXIII. ANOTHER TURN
IN THE WALTZ XXXIV. HEAVEN'S LAST BEST GIFT XXXV.
MOTHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW XXXVI. THE
BACK WINDOW XXXVII. ABEL NEWT Vice SLIGO MOULTRIE
REMOVED XXXVIII. THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING XXXIX.
A FIELD-DAY XL. AT THE ROUND TABLE XLI. A LITTLE
DINNER XLII. CLEARING AND CLOUDY XLIII. WALKING
HOME XLIV. CHURCH GOING XLV. IN CHURCH XLVI. IN
ANOTHER CHURCH XLVII. DEATH XLVIII. THE HEIRESS XLIX.
A SELECT PARTY L. WINE AND TRUTH LI. A WARNING LII.
BREAKFAST LIII. SLIGO MOULTRIE vice ABEL NEWT LIV.
CLOUDS AND DARKNESS LV. ARTHUR MERLIN'S GREAT
PICTURE LVI. REDIVIVUS LVII. DINING WITH LAWRENCE
NEWT LVIII. THE HEALTH OF THE JUNIOR PARTNER LIX.
MRS. ALFRED DINKS LX. POLITICS LXI. GONE TO PROTEST
LXII. THE CRASH, UP TOWN LXIII. ENDYMION LXIV. DIANA
LXV. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE LXVI. MENTOR AND
TELEMACHUS LXVII. WIRES LXVIII. THE INDUSTRIOUS
APPRENTICE LXIX. IN AND OUT LXX. THE REPRESENTATIVE

OF THE PEOPLE LXXI. RICHES HAVE WINGS LXXII. GOOD-BY
LXXIII. THE BELCH PLATFORM LXXIV. MIDNIGHT LXXV.
REMINISCENCE LXXVI. A SOCIAL GLASS LXXVII. FACE TO
FACE LXXVIII. FINISHING PICTURES LXXIX. THE LAST
THROW LXXX. CLOUDS BREAKING LXXXI. MRS. ALFRED
DINKS AT HOME LXXXII. THE LOST IS FOUND LXXXIII. MRS.
DELILAH JONES LXXXIV. PROSPECTS OF HAPPINESS LXXXV.
GETTING READY LXXXVI. IN THE CITY LXXXVII. A LONG
JOURNEY LXXXVIII. WAITING LXXXIX. DUST TO DUST XC.
UNDER THE MISLETOE

CHAPTER I.
SCHOOL BEGINS.
Forty years ago Mr. Savory Gray was a prosperous merchant. No
gentleman on 'Change wore more spotless linen or blacker broadcloth.
His ample white cravat had an air of absolute wisdom and honesty. It
was so very white that his fellow-merchants could not avoid a vague
impression that he had taken the church on his way down town, and
had so purified himself for business. Indeed a white cravat is strongly
to be recommended as a corrective and sedative of the public mind. Its
advantages have long been familiar to the clergy; and even, in some
desperate cases, politicians have found a resort to it of signal benefit.
There are instructive instances, also, in banks and insurance offices of
the comfort and value of spotless linen. Combined with highly-polished
shoes, it is of inestimable mercantile advantage.
Mr. Gray prospered in business, and nobody was sorry. He enjoyed his
practical joke and his glass of Madeira, which had made at least three
voyages round the Cape. His temperament, like his person, was just
unctuous enough to enable him to slip comfortably through life.
Happily for his own comfort, he had but a speaking acquaintance with
politics. He was not a blue Federalist, and he never d'd the Democrats.
With unconscious skill he shot the angry rapids of discussion, and

swept, by a sure instinct, toward the quiet water on which he liked to
ride. In the counting-room or the meeting of directors, when his
neighbors waxed furious upon raking over some outrage of that old
French infidel, Tom Jefferson, as they called him, sending him and his
gun-boats where no man or boat wants to go, Mr.