By Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield

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TO THE COUNT ALFRED D’ORSAY
THESE VOLUMES ARE INSCRIBED
BY
HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND.

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CONTENTS

HENRIETTA TEMPLE

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I. -- Some Account of the Family of Armine, and Especially of Sir Ferdinand and of Sir Ratcliffe.

CHAPTER II. -- Armine Described.

CHAPTER III. -- Arrival of Glastonbury.

CHAPTER IV. -- Progress of Affairs at Armine.

CHAPTER V. -- A Domestic Scene.

CHAPTER VI. -- Containing Another Domestic Scene.

CHAPTER VII. -- Containing an Unexpected Visit to London, and Its Consequences.

CHAPTER VIII. -- A Visit to Glastonbury’s Chamber.

CHAPTER IX. -- The Last Day and the Last Night.

CHAPTER X. -- The Advantage of Being a Favourite Grandson.

BOOK II.

CHAPTER I. -- Partly Retrospective, yet Very Necessary to be Perused.

CHAPTER II. -- In Which Captain Armine Achieves with Rapidity a Result Which Always Requires Great Deliberation.

CHAPTER III. -- Which Ferdinand Returns to Armine.

CHAPTER IV. -- In Which Some Light Is Thrown on the Title of This Work.

CHAPTER V. -- In Which Captain Armine Is Very Absent during Dinner.

CHAPTER VI. -- In Which Captain Armine Pays His First Visit to Ducie.

CHAPTER VII. -- In Which Captain Armine Indulges in a Reverie.

CHAPTER VIII. -- A Strange Dream.

CHAPTER IX. -- Which I Hope May Prove as Agreeable to the Reader as to Our Hero.

CHAPTER X. -- Evening Stroll.

CHAPTER XI. -- A Morning Walk.

CHAPTER XII. -- Containing an Ominous Incident.

CHAPTER XIII. -- In Which Captain Armine Finds Reason to Believe in the Existence of Fairies.

CHAPTER XIV. -- Containing an Incident Which Is the Termination of Most Tales, though Almost the Beginning of the Present.

BOOK III.

CHAPTER I. -- In Which Captain Armine Proves Himself a Complete Tactician.

CHAPTER II. -- A Day of Love.

CHAPTER III. -- Which on the Whole Is Found Very Consoling.

CHAPTER IV. -- Henrietta Visits Armine, Which Leads to a Rather Perplexing Encounter.

CHAPTER V. -- Which Contains Something Very Unexpected.

BOOK IV.

CHAPTER I. -- Which Contains a Love-Letter.

CHAPTER II. -- Which, Supposing the Reader Is Interested in the Correspondence, Pursues It.

CHAPTER III. -- Containing the Arrival at Ducie of a Distinguished Guest.

CHAPTER IV. -- Containing Some Account of the Viscountess Dowager Bellair.

CHAPTER V. -- In Which Lady Bellair Gives Some Account of Some of Her Friends.

CHAPTER VI. -- Containing a Conversation Not Quite so Amusing as the Last.

CHAPTER VII. -- In Which Mr. Temple Pays a Visit to His Daughter’s Chamber.

CHAPTER VIII. -- In Which Glastonbury Is Very Much Astonished.

CHAPTER IX. -- In Which Glastonbury Finds That a Serene Temper Does Not Always Bring a Serene Life.

CHAPTER X. -- In Which Ferdinand Armine Is Much Concerned.

CHAPTER XI. -- In Which Ferdinand Begins to Be a Little Troublesome.

CHAPTER XII. -- Containing the Intimation of a Somewhat Mysterious Adventure.

CHAPTER XIII. -- In Which the Family Perplexities Rather Increase than Diminish.

CHAPTER XIV. -- In Which Some Light Is Thrown upon Some Circumstances Which Were Before Rather Mysterious.

CHAPTER XV. -- Which Leaves Affairs in General in a Scarcely More Satisfactory Position than the Former One.

BOOK V.

CHAPTER I. -- Containing the Appearance on Our Stage of a New and Important Character.

CHAPTER II. -- In Which Lord Montfort Contrives That Miss Temple Should be Left Alone.

CHAPTER III. -- In Which Mr. Temple and His Daughter, with Their New Friend, Make an Unexpected Excursion.

CHAPTER IV. -- Showing That It Is the First Step That Is Ever the Most Difficult.

CHAPTER V. -- Which Contains Some Rather Painful Explanations.

CHAPTER VI. -- Which Contains an Event Not Less Important Than the One Which Concluded Our Second Book.

BOOK VI.

CHAPTER I. -- Which Contains a Remarkable Change of Fortune.

CHAPTER II. -- In Which the Reader Is Again Introduced to Captain Armine, during His Visit to London.

CHAPTER III. -- In Which Glastonbury Meets the Very Last Person in the World He Expected, and the Strange Consequences.

BOOK VI. -- [Continued]

CHAPTER IV. -- In Which Mr. Glastonbury Informs Captain Armine of His Meeting with Miss Temple.

CHAPTER V. -- Which, on the Whole, Is Perhaps as Remarkable a Chapter as Any in the Work.

CHAPTER VI. -- Containing an Evening Assembly at Bellair House.

CHAPTER VII. -- Containing a Very Important Communication.

CHAPTER VIII. -- Which Is Rather Strange.

CHAPTER IX. -- Which Is on the Whole Almost as Perplexing as the Preceding One.

CHAPTER X. -- In Which Captain Armine Increases His Knowledge of the Value of Money, and Also Becomes Aware of the Advantage of an Acquaintance Who Burns Coals.

CHAPTER XI. -- In Which Captain Armine Unexpectedly Resumes His Acquaintance with Lord Catchimwhocan, Who Introduces Him to Mr. Bond Sharpe.

CHAPTER XII. -- Miss Grandison Makes a Remarkable Discovery.

CHAPTER XIII. -- In Which Ferdinand Has the Honour of Dining with Mr. Bond Sharpe.

CHAPTER XIV. -- Miss Grandison Piques the Curiosity of Lord Montfort, and Count Mirabel Drives Ferdinand Down to Richmond, Which Drive Ends in an Agreeable Adventure and an Unexpected Confidence.

CHAPTER XV. -- In Which the Count Mirabel Commences His Operations with Great Success.

CHAPTER XVI. -- In Which Mr. Temple Surprises His Daughter Weeping.

CHAPTER XVII. -- In Which Ferdinand Has a Very Stormy Interview with His Father.

CHAPTER XVIII. -- Ferdinand Is Arrested by Messrs. Morris and Levison, and Taken to a Spunging-House.

CHAPTER XIX. -- The Crisis Rapidly Advances.

CHAPTER XX. -- In Which Ferdinand Receives More than One Visit, and Finds That Adversity Has Not Quite Deprived Him of His Friends.

CHAPTER XXI. -- The Crisis.

CHAPTER XXII. -- Ferdinand Meditates over His Good Fortune.

CHAPTER XXIII. -- Ferdinand Receives the Most Interesting Invitation to Dinner Ever Offered to Him.

CHAPTER XXIV. -- Some Account of the Party, and Its Result.

CHAPTER XXV. -- Which, Though Final, It Is Hoped Will Prove Satisfactory.



HENRIETTA TEMPLE

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