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CHAPTER I Tells of Their First, and Very Unpropitious, Meeting

CHAPTER II Tells How Harbourne Came to Harbourne

CHAPTER III Tells Why a Certain Letter was Written

CHAPTER IV Which Concerns this Same Letter

CHAPTER V Being Merely a Chapter of Business

CHAPTER VI How Sir Nicholas Became a Handyman and Met a Small Though Important Personage

‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,

The reason why I cannot tell,

But this I know, and know full well,

I—do—not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ ”

CHAPTER VII Concerning Hobnailed Boots and the Magic of Cards

CHAPTER VIII How Nicholas Glimpsed the Shadow Again—with the Reason Therefor

CHAPTER IX Of Brutality and a Bull

CHAPTER X Chiefly Concerning a Butler of Price, though Priceless

CHAPTER XI How (According to Joanne) Not to Make Love

CHAPTER XII Diamond v. Paste

CHAPTER XIII How Lord Wolverton Wrote a Letter, and Why

“— Club London.

“ Dear Miss Marsden ,

“To Sir Nicholas Harbourne.

CHAPTER XIV How a Letter was Burnt and Priscilla’s Woe Turned to Joy

CHAPTER XV In which Aunt Jemima Wonders

‘Oh mistress mine, where are you roaming?

Oh stay and hear, your true love’s coming,

That can sing both high and low;

Trip no further, pretty sweeting,

Journey’s end in lover’s meeting,

Every wise man’s son doth know!’

So, mistress mine, most pretty sweeting, good night; may. angels guard thy gentle slumber. Now, Bill, the pigsties!”

CHAPTER XVI In Which Priscilla Pours Out Tea

CHAPTER XVII Gives Some Description of a Kiss

CHAPTER XVIII Tells How Nicholas Met an Old Shipmate

“To Messrs. Biggs, Dyke and Biggs.

“Gent

CHAPTER XIX In Which Nicholas, Building Pigsties, Versifies

CHAPTER XX Concerning the Beauties in Haymaking

“ ‘Wot’s to be done wi’ the drunken man now?

Wot’s to be done wi’ this drunken chap, now?

Wot’s to be done wi’ this drunken lord, now?

Er-lie in the mornin’?’

Ho, Bill, gimme a hand wi’ this gig.... So it’s

‘Wey-hey hup she rises,

Wey-hey hup she rises,

Wey-hey hup she rises,

Er-lie in the mornin’.’ ”

CHAPTER XXI How the “Splendorious” Idea Inspired Action

“Oh Mistress Mine, of beauty rare,

With sunset tangled in thy hair,

This should my light and beacon be,

Through every shoal safe-guiding me,

Through death itself, until——”

Here indeed Death, it seemed, smote at him, so that he. would have fallen but for the stile whereto he clung instinctively,. being for the moment blinded, half-stunned. and perfectly helpless.

CHAPTER XXII The Wherefore of Bill’s Black Eye

CHAPTER XXIII Harvest

CHAPTER XXIV Describes a Hate-filled Letter

“My poor, deluded Joanne,

“P.S. You may show him this letter, and should he then. desire a gentlemanly meeting, I will honour him by. exchanging shots on Calais Sands whenever he chooses. to die.”

CHAPTER XXV Tells How She Asked Questions and He Tried to Answer

CHAPTER XXVI Describes a “Splendorious” Tea-Party and the Comforting Wisdom of an Aunt

CHAPTER XXVII How Aunt Jemima Rose to the Occasion

CHAPTER XXVIII Which, Though the last Chapter, is not Quite so Sentimental as Might be Expected

The Glad Summer

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