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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