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CONTENTS.
The mystical master introduces the practical disciple.
The disciple unbends, and consents to act a social part.
The hypothetical friends.
In which the story of China Aster is, at second-hand, told by one who, while not disapproving the moral, disclaims the spirit of the style.
Ending with a rupture of the hypothesis.
Upon the heel of the last scene, the Cosmopolitan enters the barber's shop, a benediction on his lips.
Very charming.
In which the last three words of the last chapter are made the text of the discourse, which will be sure of receiving more or less attention from those readers who do not skip it.
The Cosmopolitan increases in seriousness.
