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I The Happy Pedler Comes to Town 3
II The Jade and the Inquisition 13
III Jean FranÇois' Vast Possessions 23
IV The Misadventure of a Circus 35
V Timid Conquest Comes to Town 48
VI The Jade, a Nonentity, becomes the Illustrious Nance 57
VII A Pedler's Pack of Dreams 68
VIII Monsieur l'AbbÉ Picot of the Brave, Outlandish Heart 74
IX The Child is Father to the Man 86
X On the Morning Road 97
XI The Satisfactory Explanation of Nance 107
XII A Hebe of the Highway 117
XIII The Night in the Greenwood 129
XIV Vicarious Vagabonds 136
XV "If I were Monsieur l'AbbÉ Picot" 146
XVI Hebe's Farewell to Pan 155
XVII The Day of Faith 163
XVIII The Day of Doubt 171
XIX The Day of Lost Confidence 176
XX Monsieur l'AbbÉ at Home 185
XXI "Little St. Jacques of the Street" 194
XXII Monsieur l'AbbÉ Lies Ill 201
XXIII "I would talk with some old lover's ghost, who lived before the god of love was born" 210
XXIV The Priest and Faun 216
XXV Monsieur l'AbbÉ Picot Goes upon a Journey 222