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Justice in the By-Ways A Tale of Life
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23 Chapters
Chapter 1 TOM SWIGGS' SEVENTH INTRODUCTION ON BOARD OF THE BRIG STANDFAST.
Chapter 2 MADAME FLAMINGO-HER DISTINGUISHED PATRONS, AND HER VERY RESPECTABLE HOUSE.
Chapter 3 IN WHICH THE READER IS PRESENTED WITH A VARIED PICTURE.
Chapter 4 A FEW REFLECTIONS ON THE CURE OF VICE.
Chapter 5 IN WHICH MR. SNIVEL, COMMONLY CALLED THE ACCOMMODATION MAN, IS INTRODUCED, AND WHAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN HIM AND MRS. SWIGGS.
Chapter 6 CONTAINING SUNDRY MATTERS APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY.
Chapter 7 IN WHICH IS SEEN A COMMINGLING OF CITIZENS.
Chapter 8 WHAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN GEORGE MULLHOLLAND AND MR. SNIVEL.
Chapter 9 IN WHICH A GLEAM OF LIGHT IS SHED ON THE HISTORY OF ANNA BONARD.
Chapter 10 A CONTINUATION OF GEORGE MULLHOLLAND'S HISTORY.
Chapter 11 IN WHICH THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO MR. ABSALOM M'ARTHUR.
Chapter 12 IN WHICH ARE MATTERS THE READER MAY HAVE ANTICIPATED.
Chapter 13 MRS. SWIGGS COMES TO THE RESCUE OF THE HOUSE OF THE FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Chapter 14 MR. M'ARTHUR MAKES A DISCOVERY.
Chapter 15 WHAT MADAME FLAMINGO WANTS TO BE.
Chapter 16 IN WHICH TOM SWIGGS GAINS HIS LIBERTY, AND WHAT BEFALLS HIM.
Chapter 17 IN WHICH THERE IS AN INTERESTING MEETING.
Chapter 18 ANNA BONARD SEEKS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ANTIQUARY.
Chapter 19 A SECRET INTERVIEW.
Chapter 20 LADY SWIGGS ENCOUNTERS DIFFICULTIES ON HER ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.
Chapter 21 MR. SNIVEL PURSUES HIS SEARCH FOR THE VOTE-CRIBBER.
Chapter 22 MRS. SWIGGS FALLS UPON A MODERN HEATHEN WORLD.
Chapter 23 IN WHICH THE VERY BEST INTENTIONS ARE SEEN TO FAIL.
Chapter 24 MR. SNIVEL ADVISES GEORGE MULLHOLLAND HOW TO MAKE STRONG LOVE.
Chapter 25 A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE PICTURE.
Chapter 26 IN WHICH A HIGH FUNCTIONARY IS MADE TO PLAY A SINGULAR PART.
Chapter 27 THE HOUSE OF THE NINE NATIONS, AND WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN IT.
Chapter 28 IN WHICH IS PRESENTED ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE HOUSE OF THE NINE NATIONS.
Chapter 29 IN WHICH MAY BE SEEN A FEW OF OUR COMMON EVILS.
Chapter 30 CONTAINING VARIOUS THINGS APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY.
Chapter 31 THE KENO DEN, AND WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN IT.
Chapter 32 WHICH A STATE OF SOCIETY IS SLIGHTLY REVEALED.
Chapter 33 IN WHICH THERE IS A SINGULAR REVELATION.
Chapter 34 THE TWO PICTURES.
Chapter 35 IN WHICH A LITTLE LIGHT IS SHED UPON THE CHARACTER OF OUR CHIVALRY.
Chapter 36 IN WHICH A LAW IS SEEN TO SERVE BASE PURPOSES.
Chapter 37 A SHORT CHAPTER OF ORDINARY EVENTS.
Chapter 38 A STORY WITHOUT WHICH THIS HISTORY WOULD BE FOUND WANTING.
Chapter 39 A STORY WITH MANY COUNTERPARTS.
Chapter 40 IN WHICH THE LAW IS SEEN TO CONFLICT WITH OUR CHERISHED CHIVALRY.
Chapter 41 IN WHICH JUSTICE IS SEEN TO BE VERY ACCOMMODATING.
Chapter 42 IN WHICH SOME LIGHT IS THROWN ON THE PLOT OF THIS HISTORY.
Chapter 43 IN WHICH IS REVEALED THE ONE ERROR THAT BROUGHT SO MUCH SUFFERING UPON MANY.
Chapter 44 IN WHICH IS RECORDED EVENTS THE READER MAY NOT HAVE EXPECTED.
Chapter 45 ANOTHER SHADE OF THE PICTURE.
Chapter 46 THE SOUL MAY GAIN STRENGTH IN A DREARY CELL.
Chapter 47 IN WHICH IS A HAPPY MEETING, AND SOMETHING PLEASING.
Chapter 48 A FEW WORDS WITH THE READER.
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Chapter 23 IN WHICH THE VERY BEST INTENTIONS ARE SEEN TO FAIL.

THE city clock strikes one as Mrs. Swiggs, nervous and weary, enters the House of the Foreign Missions. Into a comfortably-furnished room on the right, she is ushered by a man meekly dressed, and whose countenance wears an expression of melancholy. Maps and drawings of Palestine, Hindostan, and sundry other fields of missionary labor, hang here and

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