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CHAPTER III.
THE MYSTERY
PART II.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
LORD CARSTAIRS
PART III.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
MRS. WORTLE AND MR. PUDDICOMBE
PART IV.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
THE STANTILOUP CORRESPONDENCE
DR. WORTLE'S SCHOOL.
PART I.
CHAPTER I.
DR. WORTLE.
THE Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others,--and by himself. He combined two professions, in both of which he had been successful,--had been, and continued to be, at the time in which we speak of him. I will introduce him to the reader in the present tense as Rector of Bowick, and proprietor and head-master of the school established in the village of that name. The seminary at Bowick had for some time enjoyed a reputation under him;--not that he had ever himself used so new-fangled and unpalatable a word in speaking of his school. Bowick School had