"Gentillesse cometh fro' God allone."
—Chaucer
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1920
Copyright, 1917, 1918, 1920, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Ridgway Company
Copyright, 1919, by The New Republic Publishing Co., Inc.
Copyright, 1914, 1916, 1919, by The Atlantic Monthly Co.
Publisher's mark
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
VILLA RUBEIN, and Other Stories
THE ISLAND PHARISEES
THE MAN OF PROPERTY
THE COUNTRY HOUSE
FRATERNITY
THE PATRICIAN
THE DARK FLOWER
THE FREELANDS
BEYOND
FIVE TALES
SAINT'S PROGRESS
TATTERDEMALION
A COMMENTARY
A MOTLEY
THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY
THE LITTLE MAN, and Other Satires
A SHEAF
ANOTHER SHEAF
ADDRESSES IN AMERICA: 1919
PLAYS: FIRST SERIES
and Separately
THE SILVER BOX
JOY
STRIFE
PLAYS: SECOND SERIES
and Separately
THE ELDEST SON
THE LITTLE DREAM
JUSTICE
PLAYS: THIRD SERIES
and Separately
THE FUGITIVE
THE PIGEON
THE MOB
A BIT O' LOVE
MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS
MEMORIES. Illustrated
TO
ELIZABETH LUCAS