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The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles W. Chesnutt

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  1. 1Epigraph — I — At Break of Day
  2. 2II — The Christening Party
  3. 3III — The Editor at Work
  4. 4IV — Theodore Felix
  5. 5V — A Journey Southward
  6. 6VI — Janet
  7. 7VII — The Operation
  8. 8VIII — The Campaign Drags
  9. 9IX — A White Man’s “Nigger”
  10. 10X — Delamere Plays a Trump
  11. 11XI — The Baby and the Bird
  12. 12XII — Another Southern Product
  13. 13XIII — The Cakewalk
  14. 14XIV — The Maunderings of Old Mrs. Ochiltree
  15. 15XV — Mrs. Carteret Seeks an Explanation
  16. 16XVI — Ellis Takes a Trick
  17. 17XVII — The Social Aspirations of Captain McBane
  18. 18XVIII — Sandy Sees His Own Ha’nt
  19. 19XIX — A Midnight Walk
  20. 20XX — A Shocking Crime
  21. 21XXI — The Necessity of an Example
  22. 22XXII — How Not to Prevent a Lynching
  23. 23XXIII — Belleview
  24. 24XXIV — Two Southern Gentlemen
  25. 25XXV — The Honor of a Family
  26. 26XXVI — The Discomfort of Ellis
  27. 27XXVII — The Vagaries of the Higher Law
  28. 28XXVIII — In Season and Out
  29. 29XXIX — Mutterings of the Storm
  30. 30XXX — The Missing Papers
  31. 31XXXI — The Shadow of a Dream
  32. 32XXXII — The Storm Breaks
  33. 33XXXIII — Into the Lion’s Jaws
  34. 34XXXIV — The Valley of the Shadow
  35. 35XXXV — “Mine Enemy, o Mine Enemy!”
  36. 36XXXVI — Fiat Justitia
  37. 37XXXVII — The Sisters

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