Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/counterfeitprese00howeiala Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT. A COMEDY. * * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR _And published with Mr. Howells's sanction._ A FOREGONE CONCLUSION. A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE. THE LADY OF THE AROOSTOOK. 2 VOLS. OUT OF THE QUESTION and AT THE SIGN OF THE SAVAGE. THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY. THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. 2 VOLS. A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY and TONELLI'S MARRIAGE. EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS AND CO. * * * * * * A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT AND THE PARLOUR CAR by WILLIAM D. HOWELLS [Illustration] Author's Edition Edinburgh David Douglas, Castle Street 1882 Edinburgh University Press T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty. [Illustration] Frederic Ernest Allsopp. CONTENTS. PAGE I. AN EXTRAORDINARY RESEMBLANCE, 7 II. DISTINCTIONS AND DIFFERENCES, 61 III. DISSOLVING VIEWS, 99 IV. NOT AT ALL LIKE, 141 * * * * * THE PARLOUR CAR, A FARCE, 191 I. AN EXTRAORDINARY RESEMBLANCE. A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT. (_The Scene is always in the Parlour of the Ponkwasset Hotel._) I. BARTLETT _and_ CUMMINGS.