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[Illustration: _The Duc, the Duchesse, and the Doctor._ ]


THE NABOB


BY

ALPHONSE DAUDET


TRANSLATED BY

GEORGE BURNHAM IVES


WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

BRANDER MATTHEWS


IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. II.


BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1902

_Copyright, 1898,_

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._


University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.




CONTENTS.

                                                    PAGE

XIII.   A DAY OF SPLEEN                               1

XIV.    THE EXHIBITION                               20

XV.     MEMOIRS OF A CLERK.--IN THE RECEPTION-ROOM   42

XVI.    A PUBLIC MAN                                 57

XVII.   THE APPARITION                               86

XVIII.  THE JENKINS PEARLS                          107

XIX.    THE OBSEQUIES                               135

XX.     BARONESS HEMERLINGUE            