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THE
TALLANTS OF BARTON.
A Tale of Fortune and Finance.
BY
JOSEPH HATTON,
Author of “Bitter Sweets:a Love Story;” “Against the Stream,” etc., etc.
“The wheel of Fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself,
I shall to-day be uppermost?”—Confucius.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE ST., STRAND.
1867.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]
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LONDON:
BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
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