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The works of Tobias Smollett

Smollett, Tobias GeorgeHenley, William Ernest

The works of Tobias Smollett

Smollett, Tobias GeorgeHenley, William Ernest

The adventure of Ferdinand Count Fathom. Volume one

Chapter I. Some sage observations that naturally introduce our important history

Chapter II. A superficial view of our hero's infancy

Chapter III. He is initiated in a military life, and has the good fortune to aquire a generous patron

Chapter IV. His mother's prowess and death ; together with some instances of his own sagacity

Chapter V. A brief detail of his education

Chapter VI. He meditates schemes of importance

Chapter VII. Engages in partnership with a female associate, in order to put his talents in action

Chapter VIII. Their first attempt ; with a digression which some readers may think impertinent

Chapter IX. The confederates change their battery; and achieve a remarkable adventure

Chapter X. They proceed to levy contributions with great success, until our hero sets out with the young count for Vienna, where he enters into league with another adventurer

Chapter XI. Fathom makes various efforts in the world of gallantry

Chapter XII. He effects a lodgement in the house of a rich jeweller

Chapter XIII. He is exposed to a most perilous incident in the course of his intrigue with the dauther

Chapter XIV. He is reduced to a dreadful dilemma, in consequence of an assignation with the wife

Chapter XV. But a lenght succeeds in his attempts upon both

Chapter XVI. His success begrets a blind security, by which he is once again well nigh entrapped in his Dulcinea's apartment

Chapter XVII. The step-dame's suspicions being awakened, she lays a snare for our adventurer, from which he is delivered by the interposition of his good genius

Chapter XVIII. Our hero departs from Vienna, and quits the domain of Venus for the rough field of Mars

Chapter XIX. He puts himself under the guidance of his associate, and stumbles upon the French camp, where he finishes his military career

Chapter XX. He prepares a stratagem, but finds himself countermined ; proceeds on his journey, and is overtaken by a terrible tempest

Chapter XXI. He falls upon Scylla, seeking to avoid Charybdis

Chapter XXII. He arrives at Paris, and is pleased with his reception

Chapter XXII. Acquits himself with address in a nocturnal riot

Chapter XXIV. He overlooks the advances of his friends, and smarts severely for his neglect

Chapter XXV. He bears his fate like a philosopher ; and contracts acquaintance with a very remarkable personage

Chapter XXVI. The history of the noble Castilian

Chapter XXVII. A flagrant instance of fathom's virtue, in the manner of his retreat to England

Chapter XXVIII. Some account of his fellow-travellers

Chapter XXIX. Another providential deliverance from the effects of the smuggler's ingenious conjecture

Chapter XXX. The singular manner of Fathom's attack and triumph over the virtue of the fair Elenor

Chapter XXI. He by accident encounters his old friend, with whom he holds a conference, and renews a treaty

Chapter XXXII. He appears in the great world with universal applause and admiration

Chapter XXXIII. He attracts the envy and ill offices of the minor knights of his own order, over whom he obtains a complete victory

Chapter XXXIV. He performs another exploit, that conveys a true idea of his gratitude and honour

Chapter XXXV. He repairs to Bristol spring, where he reigns paramount during the whole season

Chapter XXXVI. He is smitten with the charms of a female adventurer, whose allurements subject him to a new vicissitude of fortune

Chapter XXXVII. Fresh cause for exerting his equanimity and fortitude

Chapter XXXVIII. The biter is bit

Chapter XXXIX. Our adventurer is made acquainted with a new scene of life

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