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TALES FROM DICKENS

By

HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES

Author of
The Castaway, Hearts Courageous
A Furnace of Earth, etc.

With Illustrations by Reginald B. Birch







[Illustration: David Copperfield and his friend, Mr. Micawber
_See page 112_]



Indianapolis
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Publishers

Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
November




To

GEORGE BAKER ROBBINS, JR.




CONTENTS

  CHARLES DICKENS                                              1


  THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP

     I Little Nell                                            19
    II The Wanderers                                          26
   III The Search                                             35

  OLIVER TWIST

     I How Oliver Came to London and What He Found There      49
    II Oliver's Adventures                                    58
   III How Everything Turned Out Right for Oliver
        in the End                                            65

  BARNABY RUDGE

     I Barnaby's Boyhood                                      77
    II The Mysterious Stranger and Who He Was                 83
   III Barnaby Gets Into Trouble                              89
    IV Barnaby Prospers at Last                               95

  DAVID COPPERFIELD

     I David's Early Ups and Downs                           105
    II Little Em'ly                                          115
   III David and His Child-Wife                              120
    IV David Finds All Well at Last                          124

  GREAT EXPECTATIONS

     I Pip and the Convict                                   131
    II The Queer Miss Havisham                               138
   III Pip Discovers His Benefactor                          147
    IV Pip Comes to Himself                                  152

  NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

     I Nicholas at Dotheboys Hall                            161
    II Nicholas Becomes an Actor                             167
   III Nicholas Comes to Kate's Rescue                       171
    IV What Happened to Everybody                            175

  DOMBEY AND SON

     I Little Paul                                           183
    II How Florence Lost Her Father                          191
   III How Florence Reached a Refuge                         199
    IV How Florence Found Her Father at Last                 203

  THE PICKWICK PAPERS

     I The Pickwickians Begin Their Adventures. They
        Meet Mr. Alfred Jingle, and Winkle Is Involved
        in a Duel                                            213
    II Tupman Has a Love-Affair With a Spinster, and
        the Pickwickians Find Out the Real Character
        of Jingle                                            218
   III Mr. Pickwick Has an Interesting Scene With Mrs.
        Bardell, His Housekeeper. Further Pursuit of
        Jingle Leads to an Adventure at a Young Ladies'
        Boarding School                                      224
    IV Sam Weller Meets His Father, and the Pursuit of
        Jingle Is Continued. Mr. Pickwick Makes a
        Strange Call on a Middle-Aged Lady in Yellow
        Curl Papers                                          230
     V The Pickwickians Find Themselves in the Grasp of
        the Law. The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a
        Christmas Merrymaking                                233
    VI The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick.
        Sergeant Buzfuz's Speech and an Unexpected Verdict   238
   VII Winkle Has an Exciting Adventure With Mr. Dowler,
        and With the Aid of Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller
        Discovers the Whereabouts of Miss Arabella Allen     242
  VIII Mr. Pickwick's Experiences in the Debtors' Prison,
        Where He Finds an Old