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CONTENTS OF PART I:

CHAP. I. Mr. Verdant Green's VIII. Mr. Verdant Green's MornRelatives and Antecedents.

II. Mr. Verdant Green is to be an
Oxford Freshman.

III. Mr. Verdant Green leaves the

Home of his Ancestors.

ing Reflections are not so plea sant as his Evening Diversions. IX. Mr. V. Green attends Lectures, and, in despite of Sermons, has dealings with Filthy Lucre.

IV. Mr. Verdant Green becomes X. Mr. Verdant Green reforms his

Tailor's Bills and runs others; he also appears in a rapid act of Horsemanship, and finds Isis cool in Summer. Mr. Verdant Green's Sports and Pastimes.

XII. Mr.V.Green terminates his existence as an Oxford-Freshman.

CONTENTS OF PART II :

CHAP. I. Mr. Verdant Green re- | VI. Mr. Verdant Green feathers commences his existence as an Oxford Undergraduate.

II. Mr. Verdant Green does as he
has been done by.

III. Mr. Verdant Green endea-
vours to keep his Spirits up by
pouring Spirits down.
IV. Mr.V.Green discovers the differ-
ence between Town and Gown.
V. Mr. Verdant Green is favoured
with Mr. Bouncer's Opinions
regarding an Undergraduate's
Epistolary Communications to
his Maternal Relative.

his oars with skill and dexterity. VII. Mr. Verdant Green partakes of

a Dove-tart and a Spread eagle. VIII. Mr. Verdant Green spends Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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CONTENTS OF PART III :

CHAP. I. Mr. V. Green travels North. | VII. Mr. Verdant Green has an II. Mr. Verdant Green delivers Inkling of the Future.

Miss Patty Honeywood from the Horns of a Dilemma. III. Mr. Verdant Green studies ye Manners and Customs of ye Natyves.

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VIII. Mr. Verdant Green crosses

the Rubicon.

IX. Mr. Verdant Green asks Papa.
X. Mr. Verdant Green is made a
Mason.

XI. Mr. Verdant Green breakfasts
with Mr. Bouncer, and enters
for a Grind.

XII. Mr. V. Green takes his Degree. VI. Mr. Verdant Green joins a Chapter the Last. Mr. Verdant Northumberland Pic-Nic. Green is Married and Done for.

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DE CLIFFORD;

OR,

THE CONSTANT MAN.

CHAPTER I.

MY BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.

My name is De Clifford, and I trace myself in a direct line from the renowned feudal barons. My immediate ancestors spring from Sir William De Clifford, son to Roger Lord Clifford, a baron of the time of King Richard II. With all his ancient blood, however, my father was, in substance, scarcely more than a farmera gentleman-farmer indeed, with a better title to armorial bearings than almost all his rich neighbours, who yet looked down upon him as, at the very best, that mortified, though not always humbled character, a decayed gentleman." Yet, as if to mock him the more, as his very small estate, the remnant of former times, was his own, he was designated, in the language of the northern province where it lay, by the high-sounding title of Statesman. What sort of honours belonged to that title may be imagined by the southern reader when he learns that the possessor of a freehold of twenty, nay, of ten pounds a year, enjoys that denomination among his simple neighbours.

In order to support a numerous family he was forced to eke out his income by renting a considerable farm under Sir Harry Goff, the 'squire of the neighbouring parish. This gentleman's family was the highest in degree with which we had any intercourse, though that of Hastings, to whose ancestors the old castle and manor of Bardolfe had passed above a century before, were of higher descent, and of infinitely higher fashion and condition. They, however, resided in a distant part of the country, and, for some years at least, I knew nothing of them but their name.

I had several brothers (for my mother was more prolific than rich); and a child once a year, for five years together, did not add to the means of the Statesman. My brothers, however, had huge limbs and healthy stomachs-which latter by no means

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