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THE WAYS OF THE HOUR.

The Theft

The Theft
The Ways of the Hour

“This bears some resemblance, Mr.Mr. Wilmeter, to an interview
in a convent. I am the novice, you the excluded friend, who is
compelled to pay his visit through a grate.”
Ways of the Hour. Page 115.

THE

WAYS OF THE HOUR.

A TALE.

J. FENIMORE COOPER.

‘Is this the way

I must return to native dust?’

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

1892.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, In the year 1861, by

W. A. TOWNSEND AND COMPANY,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The ways of the hour

THE WAYS OF THE HOUR.