GUILD
COURT

A London Story

BY

GEORGE MACDONALD, LL.D.

ILLUSTRATED BY CYRUS CUNEO & G. H. EVISON

LONDON

EDWIN DALTON
48-50 ALDERSGATE STREET, E.C.

CONTENTS

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1. THE WALK TO THE COUNTING-HOUSE

II. THE INVALID MOTHER

III. EXPOSTULATION

IV. THE BOXALLS' DINNER

V. GUILD COURT

VI. MORE ABOUT GUILD COURT

VII. MATTIE AND HER MOTHER

VIII. MATTIE'S FATHER

IX. A POOR ADVENTURE

X. POPPIE

XI. MR. SIMON'S ATTEMPT

XII. BUSINESS

XIII. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

XIV. MATTIE FOR POPPIE.

XV. A COMPARISON .

XVI. MATTIE'S MICROCOSM

XVII. THE JEWESS AND HER NEIGHBOURS

XVIII. THE TWO OLD WOMEN

XIX. ON THE RIVER

XX. CAPTAIN BOXIT.L'S PROPOSAL .

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XXI. THE TEMPTER

XXII. HOW TOM SPENT THE EVENING

XXIII. HOW LUCY SPENT THE NIGHT

XXIV. MORE SHUFFLING

XXY. A COMING EVENT

XXVI. MATTIE'S ILLNESS

XXVII. FISHING FOR A DAUGHTER

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