LONDON:

ROBSON AND SON, GREAT NORTHERN PRINTING WORKS,

PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

IV. "AND I—WHAT I SEEM TO MY FRIEND,

YOU SEE!"

V. DIABOLICAL SUGGESTION

VI. "J'AI DU T'AIMER, JE DOIS TE FUIR!"

108

134

165

XI. "RING OUT YOUR BELLS; LET MOURN-

XII. “I AM A SINNER VILER THAN YOU ALL”

285

XIII. Two LETTERS

301

XIV. “AFTER MANY DAYS"

310

SIR JASPER'S TENANT

CHAPTER I.

THE GATHERING OF THE DOBBITES.

HAVING pledged himself to the carrying out of the entertainment which he had himself originated, Mr. Dobb was not the man to draw back, however distracted he might be by other interests. As prime mover of the picnic on Lemley Hills, Mr. Dobb's honour was involved in the success of the entertainment; so between the twenty-fifth of August and the first of September he had very little time to think of Twopenny-Postman. The day came in due course, and was exactly the kind of day that all picnickers would demand of Providence, if they dared beseech so temporal a boon— 1

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