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HOBOKEN:

A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK.

BY THEODORE S. FAY,

AUTHOR OF "DREAMS AND REVERIES OF A QUIET MAN,"

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NORMAN

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

HOBOKEN.

CHAPTER I.

"WHERE are Frank and Harry?" asked Mr. Lennox, as the family assembled at breakfast.

"I heard them, last night," replied Mary, "agree to go over to Brooklyn early in the morning, and practise with the pistol."

"Ah! here they are," exclaimed Mr. Lennox. young gentlemen, you're just in time."

"Come,

"How many people have you shot with those horrid things?" said Mrs. Lennox.

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Nobody but our mark," answered Frank, a young lieutenant just graduated from West Point, "and I think we rather touched that once or twice-didn't we, Harry?"

"Which is the best marksman ?" asked Mr. Lennox. “I am,” said Harry, "but Frank comes on famously." "What are you going to do on your birthday, Harry?" inquired his father. "It's next Thursday, isn't it? and you're one-and-twenty, I believe."

"I haven't formed any projects, sir," replied Harry. "I hope you're going to give us some sort of a celebration on the occasion, father?" said Mary, laughing.

"I think birthdays ought to be kept in a quiet way," said Mrs. Lennox, "and young people should make their first entrance into the world with reflection and gravity."

"Nonsense!" exclaimed Mr. Lennox: " why gravity? There are occasions enough for gravity when we can't help it. On the contrary, let's have some friends to dinner, and in the evening a ball."

"I was going to propose a trip to Rose Hill," said Mary. "We might ask the Eltons, and one or two others, and make a pleasant family party-a sort of picnic." "What say you, Harry?" asked his father. "You are the hero of the day."

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