“What is Nature unless there is an eventful human life passing within her?
Many joys and many sorrows are the lights and shadows in which she shows most beautiful."
—THOREAU, MS. Diary.

CONTENTS

MALBONE.

PRELUDE.

I. AN ARRIVAL.

II. PLACE AUX DAMES!

III. A DRIVE ON THE AVENUE.

IV. AUNT JANE DEFINES HER POSITION.

V. A MULTIVALVE HEART.

VI. “SOME LOVER’S CLEAR DAY.”

VII. AN INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.

VIII. TALKING IT OVER.

IX. DANGEROUS WAYS.

X. REMONSTRANCES.

XI. DESCENSUS AVERNI.

XII. A NEW ENGAGEMENT.

XIII. DREAMING DREAMS.

XIV. THE NEMESIS OF PASSION.

XV. ACROSS THE BAY.

XVI. ON THE STAIRS.

XVII. DISCOVERY.

XVIII. HOPE’S VIGIL.

XIX. DE PROFUNDIS.

XX. AUNT JANE TO THE RESCUE.

XXI. A STORM.

XXII. OUT OF THE DEPTHS.

XXIII. REQUIESCAT.

MALBONE.