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BALLANTYNE'S
NOVELIST'S LIBRARY.
VOL. III.
THE
NOVELS
OF
TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M. D.
VIZ.
COUNT FATHOM,
SIR LAUNCELOT GREAVES,
AND
THE TRANSLATION OF
CERVANTES'S DON QUIXOTE.
LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSide.
PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY, At the Border Press :
FOR JOHN BALLANTYNE, EDINBURGH.
1821.
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CONTENTS.
To DOCTOR ***
FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM.
PAGE.
CHAP. I. Some sage observations that naturally in-
troduce our important history,
II. A superficial view of our Hero's infancy,
III. He is initiated in a military life, and has the
good fortune to acquire a generous Patron,
IV. His Mother's prowess and death; together
with some instances of his own sagacity,
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V. A brief detail of his Education,
VI. He meditates Schemes of Importance,
VII. Engages in partnership with a Female Asso-
ciate, in order to put his talents in action,
VIII. Their first attempt; with a digression which
some readers may think impertinent,
IX. The confederates change their battery, and
achieve a remarkable Adventure,
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,
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XII. He effects a lodgement in the house of a rich Jeweller,
XI. Fathom makes various efforts in the world of
gallantry,
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XXIV. He overlooks the advances of his friends,
and smarts severely for his neglect,
XXV. He bears his fate like a philosopher; and
contracts acquaintance with a very remarkable
personage,
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XXVI. The history of the noble Castilian,
XXVII. A flagrant instance of Fathom's virtue, in
the manner of his retreat to England,
XXVIII. Some account of his fellow-travellers,
XXIX. Another providential deliverance from the
effects of the smuggler's ingenious conjecture,
XXX. The singular manner of Fathom's attack
and triumph over the virtue of the fair Elenor,
XXXI. He by accident encounters his old friend,
with whom he holds a conference, and renews a
treaty,
XXXII. He appears in the great world with uni-
versal applause and admiration,
XXXIII. He attracts the envy and ill offices of the
minor knights of his own order, over whom he ob-
tains a complete victory,
XXXIV. He performs another exploit, that con-
veys a true idea of his gratitude and honour,
XXXV. He repairs to Bristol Spring, where he
reigns paramount during the whole season,
XXXVI. He is smitten with the charms of a fe-
male adventurer, whose allurements subject him
to a new vicissitude of fortune,
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XXXVII. Fresh cause for exerting his equanimi-
ty and fortitude,
XIII. He is exposed to a most perilous incident in
the course of his intrigue with the Daughter,
XIV. He is reduced to a dreadful dilemma, in con-
sequence of an assignation with the Wife,
XV. But at length succeeds in his attempts upon
both,
XVI. His success begets a blind security, by which
he is once again well nigh entrapped in his Dul-
cinea's apartment,
XVII. The Step-dame's suspicions being awaken-
ed, she lays a snare for our Adventurer, from which
he is delivered by the interposition of his good
genius,
XVIII. Our Hero departs from Vienna, and quits
the domain of Venus for the rough field of Mars,
XIX. He puts himself under the guidance of his
associate, and stumbles upon the French camp,
where be finishes his military career,
XX. He prepares a Stratagem, but finds himself
countermined; proceeds on his journey, and is
overtaken by a terrible tempest,
XXI. He falls upon Scylla, seeking to avoid Cha-
rybdes,
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XXXVIII. The Biter is bit,
XXXIX. Our Adventurer is made acquainted with
a new scene of life,
XL. He contemplates Majesty and its satellites in
eclipse,
XLI. One quarrel is compromised, and another de-
cided, by unusual arms,
XLII. An unexpected rencounter, and an happy
revolution in the affairs of our Adventurer,
XLIII. Fathom justifies the proverb," What's bred
in the bone will never come out of the flesh,"
XLIV. Anecdotes of poverty, and experiments for
the benefit of those whom it may concern,
XLV. Renaldo's distress deepens, and Fathom's
plot thickens,
XLVI. Our adventurer becomes absolute in his
power over the passions of his friend, and effects
one-half of his aim,
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XXII. He arrives at Paris, and is pleased with his
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reception,
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XXIII. Acquite himself with address in a noctur-
nal riot,
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XLVII. The art of borrowing further explained,
and an account of a strange phenomenon,
XLVIII. Count Fathom unmasks his battery; is
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