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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at [https://www.gutenberg.org/license. If you](https://www.gutenberg.org/license. If you)[ ](https://www.gutenberg.org/license. If you)are not located in the United States, you’ll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.  \nTitle: A Deal with The Devil  \nAuthor: Eden Phillpotts  \nRelease Date: October 30, 2014 [eBook \\#47246]  \nLanguage: English  \n*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL ***  \nProduced by Al Haines.  \n[image]  \nCover art  \niii  \nA DEAL  \nWITH THE DEVIL  \nBy  \nEDEN PHILLPOTTS  \nAUTHOR OF  \n”IN SUGAR-CANE LAND;”  \n”THE END OF A LIFE;””FOLLY AND FRESH AIR;”  \n”SOME EVERY-DAY FOLKS;”  \nETC.  \nLONDON  \nBLISS, SANDS AND FOSTER  \nCRAVEN STREET, STRAND, W.C.  \n1895  \nCONTENTS.  \nI. Grandfather’s Birthday  \nII. In the Cupboard  \nIII. Cold Comfort  \nIV. Hidden in London  \nV. The People next Door  \nVI. Retreat  \nVII. ”Vote for Dolphin”  \nVIII. Marie Rogers  \niv  \nIX. In London once more  \nX. The Crusade  \nXI. A New Leaf turned  \nXII. A Suggestion  \nXIII. The Squire’s Daughter  \nXIV. At Upper Norwood  \nXV. Susan Marks  \nXVI. On the River  \nXVII. Phyllis  \nXVIII. I forbid the Banns  \nXIX. Counsel’s Opinion  \nXX. A Climax  \nXXI. My Nightmare  \nXXII. The Dwindling of Grandpapa  \nXXIII. ”Fine by Degrees and Beautifully Less”  \nXXIV. The Passing of Grandpapa  \nA Deal with the Devil.  \nCHAPTER I.  \nGRANDFATHER’S BIRTHDAY.  \nv  \nBefore my grandpapa, Mr. Daniel Dolphin, comes down to breakfast on the morning of his hundredth birthday, I may tell you something about him. He has been married three times; he has buried all his wives and all his children. There were five of the latter, resulting from grandpapa’s three marriages; but now I, Martha Dolphin, the only child of grandpapa’s eldest son, am the sole survivor and living descendant of Daniel Dolphin.  \nFrankly it must be confessed that grandpapa has been an unprincipled man in his time. Among other inconveniences, resulting from unedifying conduct, he suffered five years’ imprisonment for forgery before I was born; but when he turned ninety-five I think he honestly began to realise that this world is, after all, a mere temporary place of preparation, and from that age up to the present moment (I am dealing with the morning of his hundredth birthday) he abandoned the things which once gave him pleasure, and began to look seriously towards another and a better life beyond the grave. Indeed, thanks to my ever-present warnings, and the Rev. John Murdoch’s ministrations, grandpapa, from the time he was ninety-five, kept as sober, as honest, and as innocent as one could wish to see any nonagenarian. He regarded the future with quiet confidence now, feared death no longer, and alleged that his approaching end had no terrors for him. The dear old fellow was very fond of me, and he often said that, but for his patient granddaughter, he should never have turned from the broad downward road at all. I can see him now coming in to breakfast–a marvellous man for his age. Benthe was, and shrivelled as a brown pippin from last year looks in June, but his eyes were bright, his intelligence was keen, his wit and humour ever active, his jokes most creditable for a man of such advanced age. In his antique frilled shirt, black stock, long snuff-coloured coat, and velvet cap, grandpapa looked a perfect picture. I cannot say there was anything venerable about him, but he would have made a splendid model for a miser or something of that sort.  \n”Many, many happy returns of the day, dear grandpapa,” said I, hastening to kiss his withered cheek and to place a white rose from our little garden in his button-hole.  \n”Thank you, thank you, ","cbCaioBhMpW15Dt0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioBhMpW15Dt0","pdf",285790,92,"English","# Contents\n## I. Grandfather’s Birthday\n## II. In the Cupboard\n## III. Cold Comfort\n## IV. Hidden in London\n## V. The People next Door\n## VI. Retreat\n## VII. ”Vote for Dolphin”\n## VIII. Marie Rogers\n## IX. In London once more\n## X. The Crusade\n## XI. A New Leaf turned\n## XII. A Suggestion\n## XIII. The Squire’s Daughter\n## XIV. At Upper Norwood\n## XV. Susan Marks\n## XVI. On the River\n## XVII. Phyllis\n## XVIII. I forbid the Banns\n## XIX. Counsel’s Opinion\n## XX. A Climax\n## XXI. My Nightmare\n## XXII. 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