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CONDENSED NOVELS
by BRET HARTE
Contents:
Handsome is as Handsome Does
Lothow, or The Adventures of a Young Gentleman in Search of a Religion
Muck-A-Muck, A Modern Indian Novel, [after James Fenimore Cooper]
Terence Denville
Selina Sedilia
The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen [after The Three Musketeers, By Dumas]
Miss Mix [after Charlotte Bronte]
Guy Heavystone; Or, "Entire."
Mr. Midshipman Breezy
John Jenkins; Or, The Smoker Reformed
No Title [after Wilke Collins]
* Contains:
* Mary Jones's Narrative
* The Slim Young Man's Story
* No. 27 Limehouse Road
* Count Moscow's Narrative
* Dr. Diggs's Statement
Mary McGillup, A Southern Novel, After Belle Boyd
HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES.
CHAPTER I.
The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable. The Hardins were in America. Raby was aristocratically gouty; Mrs. Raby, religious. Briefly, then, we have disposed of--
1. Mr. and Mrs. Dodd (dead).
2. Mr. and Mrs. Hardin (translated).
3. Raby, baron et femme. (Yet I don't know about the former; he came of a long-lived family, and the gout is an uncertain disease.)
We have active at the present writing (place aux dames)--
1. Lady Caroline