Chapter I: Front Matter

THE

TALLANTS OF BARTON.

A Tale of Fortune and Finance.

BY

JOSEPH HATTON,

Author of “Bitter Sweets: a Love Story;” “Against the Stream,”
etc., etc.

“The wheel of Fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within
himself, I shall to-day be uppermost?”--_Confucius._

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1867.

[_The Right of Translation is reserved._]

LONDON:
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I.--ENTER THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF
VERNER 1

II.--CONTAINS IMPORTANT REVELATIONS, AND TERMINATES
FATALLY 21

III.--“ARCADES AMBO,” BUT FLOURISHING NEVERTHELESS 34

IV.--IN WHICH RICHARD TALLANT VISITS BARTON
HALL AGAIN, AND ARTHUR PHILLIPS COMPLETES
A GREAT WORK 50

V.--THE TWO TEMPLES 64

VI.--MRS. DIBBLE AND PAUL SOMERTON JOURNEY TO
SEVERNTOWN 80

VII.--IN WHICH MR. SHUFFLETON GIBBS PRESENTS
HIMSELF IN ANOTHER CHARACTER 92

VIII.--WHAT ARTHUR PHILLIPS SAW THROUGH THE
MIST 108

IX.--IN WHICH AN IMPORTANT WILL IS READ 123

X.--ARTHUR PHILLIPS HAS A HAPPY GLIMPSE OF
THE FUTURE 135

XI.--DURING THE WINTER 145

XII.--DISCOURSES CHIEFLY OF UNREQUITED LOVE 159

XIII.--THE FIRST OBSTRUCTION IN A CERTAIN SCHEME
OF AMBITION AND REVENGE 175

XIV.--OF HAPPY DAYS IN SPRING 193

XV.--FINANCE AND “FINESSE” 212

XVI.--IN WHICH A CERTAIN LIEUTENANT GETS INTO
DEBT, AND TRYING TO GET OUT AGAIN FALLS
WICKEDLY IN LOVE 230

XVII.--CONTINUES THE LIEUTENANT’S ADVENTURE 243

XVIII.--A PICTURE FOR ASMODEO’S CLOAK 255

XIX.--“THE COMING EVENT” 274