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CHAPTER I. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER II. IN BLUE GATE
CHAPTER III. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER IV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER V. IN THE HIGHWAY
CHAPTER VI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER VII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER VIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER IX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER X. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XII. IN THE CLUB-ROOM
CHAPTER XIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XIV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XVI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XVII. IN BLUE GATE
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE BAR-PARLOUR
CHAPTER XXII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXIV. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXVI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE BAR-PARLOUR
CHAPTER XXVIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXIX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXX. STEPHEN'S TALE
My grandfather was a publican—and a sinner, as you will see. Hispublic-house was the Hole in the Wall, on the river's edge at Wapping;and his sins—all of them that I know of—are recorded in these pages.He was a widower of some small substance, and the Hole in the Wall wasnot the sum of his resources, for he owned a little wharf on the riverLea. I called him Grandfather Nat, not to distinguish him among amultitude of grandfathers—for indeed I never knew another of myown—but because of affectionate habit; a habit perhaps born of the factthat Nathaniel Kemp wa