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A SUPERB COPY OF THE FIRST ISSUE OF "LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY" I
BURNETT (FRANCES HODGSON). leroy.
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Little Lord FauntSquare 8vo, original New York, 1886
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LITTLE
LORD FAUNTLEROY.
"ARE YOU THE EARL?'
SAID CEDRIC.
'I 'M
YOUR GRANDSON.
I
'M
LORD FAUNTLEROY.
LITTLE
LORD FAUNTLEROY BY
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
NEW-YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1886
Copyright, 1886, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FROM DRAWINGS BY REGINALD
Are you
the
B.
BIRCH.
Earl?" said Cedric ; " I'm your grandson.
I'm
Lord Fauntleroy."
Frontispiece.
Vignette 'So this
Title-page.
is
little
Lord Fauntleroy."
Mr. Hobbs," said Cedric, "an Earl
Page is
sitting
on
this
box now!
"
" .
"
The Race '
I
used
to think I
might perhaps be a President, but
I
I
" "
have to go to England and be a Lord."
Dick boards
the steamer to bid good-bye to
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never thought
of being an Earl," said Ceddie '
11
Lord Fauntleroy.
" .
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45
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page
Vignette Jerry narrates some
"
of bis Adventures
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The big cat was purring in drowsy content; she liked tbe caressing touch of tbe kind
little
Tbe gates were opened by a
"
band
woman and two
cbildren
who came out "
of a pretty ivy-covered lodge
"Just lean on me," said
little
Lord Fauntleroy.
I
'II
Here
lyetb
court
"
Up
to
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thank your Lordship for, bis bat for him,
came back at a
tbe lad has to get, bis
letter
"
AUsoe of Alisone Hildegarde bys wyfe
Wilkim was carrying
"
hands in
' '
sa id Higgins
.
.
"
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and bis hair was flying, but "
brisk canter
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and my Lord trudges alongside of Urn with "
his pockets."
The workmen liked
to see
Mm
stand
among
JJQ
them, talking away,
"
witb his hands in his pockets
" / was
80
ye bodye of Gregory e Artlmre Fyrst Earle of Dorin-
" I've a great deal
be
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walk very
slowly."
Lord Fauntleroy writes a
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thinking how beautiful you are," said Lord Fauntleroy.