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THE HISTORY OF PENDENNIS.
HIS FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES, HIS FRIENDS AND HIS GREATEST ENEMY.
BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD BY THE AUTHOR,
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME II.
1858
CHAPTER
1.—RELATES TO MR. HARRY FOKER's AFFAIRS
2.—CARRIES THE READER BOTH TO RICHMOND AND GREENWICH
3.—CONTAINS A NOVEL INCIDENT
4.—ALSATIA
5.—IN WHICH THE COLONEL NARRATES SOME OF HIS ADVENTURES
6.—A CHAPTER OF CONVERSATIONS
7.—MISS AMORY'S PARTNERS
8.—MONSEIGNEUR S'AMUSE
9.—A VISIT OF POLITENESS
10.—IN SHEPHERD'S INN
11.—IN OR NEAR THE TEMPLE GARDEN
12.—THE HAPPY VILLAGE AGAIN
13.—WHICH HAD VERY NEARLY BEEN THE LAST OF THE STORY
14.—A CRITICAL CHAPTER
15.—CONVALESCENCE
16.—FANNY'S OCCUPATION'S GONE
17.—IN WHICH FANNY ENGAGES A NEW MEDICAL MAN
18.—FOREIGN GROUND
19.—"FAIROAKS TO LET"
20.—OLD FRIENDS
21.—EXPLANATIONS
22.—CONVERSATIONS
23.—THE WAY OF THE WORLD
24.—WHICH ACCOUNTS PERHAPS FOR CHAPTER XXIII
25.—PHILLIS AND CORYDON
26.—TEMPTATIONS
27.—IN WHICH PEN BEGINS HIS CANVASS
28.—IN WHICH PEN BEGINS TO DOUBT ABOUT HIS ELECTION
29.—IN WHICH THE MAJOR IS BIDDEN TO STAND AND DELIVER
30.—IN WHICH THE MAJOR NEITHER YIELDS HIS MONEY NOR HIS LIFE
31.—IN WHICH PENDENNIS COUNTS HIS EGGS
32.—FIAT JUSTITIA
33.—IN WHICH THE DECKS BEGIN TO CLEAR
34.—MR. AND MRS. SAM HUXTER
35.—SHOWS HOW ARTHUR HAD BETTER HAVE TAKEN A RETURN-TICKET
36.—A CHAPTER OF MATCH-MAKING
37.—EXEUNT OMNES PENDENNIS.
CHAPTER I.
RELATES TO MR. HARRY FOKER'S AFFAIRS.
Since that fatal but delightful night in Grosvenor place, Mr. HarryFoker's heart had been in such a state of agitation as you wouldhardly have thought so great a philosopher could endure. When weremember what good advice he had given to Pen in former days, how anearly wisdom and knowledge of the world had manifested itself in thegifted youth; how a constant course of self-indulgence, such asbecomes a gentleman of his means and expectations, ought by right tohave increased his cynicism, and made him, with every succeeding dayof his life, care less and less for every individual in the world,with the single exception of Mr. Harry Foker, one may wonder that heshould fall into the mishap to which most of us are subject once ortwice in our lives, and disquiet his great mind about a woman. ButFoker, though early wise, was still a man. He could no more escape thecommon lot than Achilles, or Ajax, or Lord Nelson, or Adam our firstfather, and now, his time being come, young Harry became a victim toLove, the All-conqueror.