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VASSALL MORTON.

A Novel.

BY

FRANCIS PARKMAN,

AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC," AND "PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE."

Ecrive qui voudra! Chacun à ce mêtier,

Peut perdre impunément de l'encre et du papier.

BOILEAU.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY.

1856.

LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1856, by

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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Vassall Morton.

CHAPTER I.

Remote from towns he ran his godly race. Goldsmith.

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"MACKNIGHT ON THE EPISTLES,- that's the name of
the book?"

"Yes, sir, if you please. I am desirous of consulting it
with a view

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'Well, this way, Mr. Jacobs.

Here's the librarian. Mr.
Stillingfleet, let me introduce my friend, the Reverend Mr.
Jacobs, of West Weathersfield."

"I am proud to make your acquaintance, sir," said Mr.
Jacobs, taking the librarian's hand with an air of diffident
veneration.

"Mr. Jacobs wishes to consult Mackwright on the Epistles."

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Macknight, if you please, Dr. Steele."

"O, Macknight. Will you be so kind as to let him have

the use of it in my name?"

"If you will go with Mr. Rubens, sir," said the librarian,
"he will show you the book."

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