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TOZER GIRL! 142
XXI. A NEW FRIEND 148
XXII. A DESPERATE EXPEDIENT 155
XXIII. TIDED OVER 164
XXIV. A VISIT 169
XXV. TEA 177
XXVI. THE HALL 185
XXVII. A PAIR OF NATURAL ENEMIES 192
XXVIII. THE NEW PUPIL 200
XXIX. URSULA'S ENTRÉES 209
XXX. SOCIETY AT THE PARSONAGE 217
XXXI. SOCIETY 224
XXXII. LOVE-MAKING 230
XXXIII. A DISCLOSURE 236
XXXIV. AN EXTRAVAGANCE 244
XXXV. THE MILLIONAIRE 251
XXXVI. FATHER AND SON 258
XXXVII. A PLEASANT EVENING 267
XXXVIII. AN EXPEDITION 273
XXXIX. A CATASTROPHE 281
XL. THE SINNED-AGAINST 287
XLI. A MORNING'S WORK 298
XLII. A GREAT MENTAL SHOCK 307
XLIII. THE CONFLICT 312
XLIV. PHÅ’BE'S LAST TRIAL 326
XLV. THE LAST 336
PHÅ’BE, JUNIOR.
A Last Chronicle of Carlingford.
CHAPTER I.
THE PASTOR'S PROGRESS.
Miss Phoebe Tozer, the only daughter of the chief deacon and leading member of the Dissenting connection in Carlingford, married, shortly after his appointment to the charge of Salem Chapel, in that town, the Reverend Mr. Beecham, one of the most rising young men in the denomination. The marriage was in many ways satisfactory to the young lady's family, for Mr. Beecham was himself the son of respectable people in a good way of business, and not destitute of means; and the position was one which they had always felt most suitable for their daughter, and to which she had been almost, it may be said, brought up. It is, however, scarcely necessary to add that it was not quite so agreeable to the other leading members of the congregation. I should be very sorry to say that each family wished that preferment for its own favourite daughter; for indeed there can be no doubt, as Mrs. Pigeon asserted vigorously, that a substantial grocer, whose father before him had established an excellent busi