CONTENTS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
A Nursery Prose
1
CHAPTER II.
Schoolroom Days
11
CHAPTER III.
Win and Slow
17
CHAPTER IV.
Ubi Lapsus, Quid Feci
25
CHAPTER V.
A Helping Hand
34
CHAPTER VI.
The Valley of Humiliation
43
CHAPTER VII.
The Inheritance
50
CHAPTER VIII.
The Old House
59
CHAPTER IX.
Rats
67
CHAPTER X.
Our Tuneful Choir
73
CHAPTER XI.
‘They Fordys’
82
CHAPTER XII.
Mrs. Sophia’s Feud
89
CHAPTER XIII.
A Scrape
96
CHAPTER XIV.
The Mullion Chamber
107
CHAPTER XV.
Rational Theories
117
CHAPTER XVI.
Cat Language
126
CHAPTER XVII.
The Siege of Hillside
136
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Portrait
149
CHAPTER XIX.
The White Feather
159
CHAPTER XX.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
171
CHAPTER XXI.
The Outside of the Courtship
179
CHAPTER XXII.
Bristol Diamonds
186
CHAPTER XXIII.
Quicksands
198
CHAPTER XXIV.
After the Tempest
208
CHAPTER XXV.
Holiday-making
217
CHAPTER XXVI.
C. Morbus, Esq.
229
CHAPTER XXVII.
Peter’s Thunderbolt
236
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A Squire of Dames
245
CHAPTER XXIX.
Love and Obedience
251
CHAPTER XXX.
Una or Duessa
260
CHAPTER XXXI.
Facilis Descensus
269
CHAPTER XXXII.
Waly, Waly
278
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The River’s Bank
284
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Not in Vain
293
CHAPTER XXXV.
Griff’s Bird
299
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Slack Water
307
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Outward Bound
316
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Too Late
328
CHAPTER XXXIX.
A Purpose
337
CHAPTER XL.
The Midnight Chase
344
CHAPTER XLI.
Wills Old and New
350
CHAPTER XLII.
On a Spree
357
CHAPTER XLIII.
The Price
364
CHAPTER XLIV.
Paying the Cost
371
CHAPTER XLV.
Achieved
378
CHAPTER XLVI.
Restitution
385
CHAPTER XLVII.
The Fordyce Story
392
CHAPTER XLVIII.
The Last Discovery
399