The Caxton Press New York

OF

A Romance

New York Dodd, Mead & Company 1901

Copyright, 1901 By Dodd, Mead & Company

CONTENTS

BOOK I

THE CLOWN

CHAP. PAGE

I. Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof

II. Giving the Very Earliest Information Obtainable of the Hero of this Book

III. Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial

IV. Raising Problems which it is the Purpose of this History to Resolve

V. In which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life

VI. Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour

VII. Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-glass to Fate

VIII. Enter a Child of Promise

IX. In which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son

X. The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast

BOOK II

THE BREAKING OF DREAMS

I. Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress

II. In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included

III. Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day

IV. Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable

V. In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat

VI. Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul

VII. An Attempt to Make the Best of It

VIII. Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair

BOOK III

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

I. In which Our Hero's World Grows Sensibly Wider

II. Telling How Dickie's Soul was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood

III. In which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another

IV. Julius March Bears Testimony

V. Telling How Queen Mary's Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor

VI. In which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated

VII. Wherein the Reader is Courteously Invited to Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons of Quality

VIII. Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from which There is no Turning Back

IX. Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance

X. Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets

XI. Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love

BOOK IV

A SLIP BETWIXT CUP AND LIP

I. Lady Louisa Barking Traces the Finger of Providence

II. Telling How Vanity Fair Made Acquaintance with Richard Calmady

III. In which Katherine Tries to Nail Up the Weather-glass to Set Fair

IV. A Lesson Upon the Eleventh Commandment—"Parents Obey Your Children"

V. Iphigenia

VI. In which Honoria St. Quentin Takes the Field

VII. Recording the Astonishing Valour Displayed by a Certain Small Mouse in a Corner

VIII. A Manifestation of the Spirit

IX. In which Dickie Shakes Hands with the Devil

BOOK V

RAKE'S PROGRESS

I. In which the Reader is Courteously Entreated to Grow Older by the Space of Some Four Years, and to Sail Southward Ho! Away

II. Wherein Time is Discovered to Have Worked Changes

III. Helen de Vallorbes Apprehends Vexatious Complications

IV. "Mater Admirabilis"

V. Exit Camp

VI. In which M. Paul Destournelle Has the Bad Taste to Threaten to Upset the Apple-cart

VII. Splendide Mendax

VIII. Helen de Vallorbes Learns Her Rival's Name

IX. Concerning that Daughter of Cupid and Psyche Whom Men Call Voluptas

X. The Abomination of Desolation

XI. In which Dickie Goes to the End of the World and Looks Over the Wall

BOOK VI

THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH

I. Miss St. Quentin Bears Witness to the Faith that is in Her

II. Telling How, Once Again, Katherine Calmady Looked on Her Son

III. Concerning a Spirit in Prison

IV. Dealing with Matters of Hearsay and Matters of Sport

V. Telling How Dickie Came to Untie a Certain Tag of Rusty, Black Ribbon

VI. A Litany of the Sacred Heart

VII. Wherein Two Enemies are Seen to Cry Quits

VIII. Concerning the Brotherhood Founded by Richard Calmady, and Other Matters of Some Interest

IX. Telling How Ludovic Quayle and Honoria St. Quentin Watched the Trout Rise in the Long Water

X. Concerning a Day of Honest Warfare and a Sunset Harbinger Not of the Night But of the Dawn

XI. In which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-suffering Reader Farewell