by Bret Harte
CHAPTER I
It was a season of unequalled prosperity in Devil's Ford. The half a
dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some
overflow of tha...
Thackeray
CHAPTER I.
OF THE LOVES OF MR. PERKINS AND MISS GORGON, AND OF THE TWO GREAT FACTIONS IN THE TOWN OF
OLDBOROUGH.
"My dear John," cried Lucy, with a very wise look indeed,...