PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
RAVENSHOE.
CHAPTER I. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF RAVENSHOE.
CHAPTER II. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE FOREGOING.
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH OUR HERO'S TROUBLES BEGIN.
CHAPTER IV. FATHER MACKWORTH.
CHAPTER V. RANFORD.
CHAPTER VI. THE "WARREN HASTINGS."
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH CHARLES AND LORD WELTER DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES AT THE UNIVERSITY.
CHAPTER VIII. JOHN MARSTON.
CHAPTER IX. ADELAIDE.
CHAPTER X. LADY ASCOT'S LITTLE NAP.
CHAPTER XI. GIVES US AN INSIGHT INTO CHARLES'S DOMESTIC
CHAPTER XII. CONTAINING A SONG BY CHARLES RAVENSHOE, AND ALSO FATHER TIERNAY'S OPINION ABOUT THE FAMILY.
CHAPTER XIII. THE BLACK HARE.
CHAPTER XIV. LORD SALTIRE'S VISIT, AND SOME OF HIS OPINIONS.
CHAPTER XV. CHARLES'S "LIDDELL AND SCOTT."
CHAPTER XVI. MARSTON'S ARRIVAL.
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH THERE IS ANOTHER SHIPWRECK.
CHAPTER XVIII. MARSTON'S DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHAPTER XIX. ELLEN'S FLIGHT.
CHAPTER XX. RANFORD AGAIN.
CHAPTER XXI. CLOTHO, LACHESIS, AND ATROPOS.
CHAPTER XXII. THE LAST GLIMPSE OF OXFORD.
CHAPTER XXIII. [2] THE LAST GLIMPSE OF THE OLD WORLD.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE NEW WORLD.
CHAPTER XXV. FATHER MACKWORTH BRINGS LORD SALTIRE TO BAY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE GRAND CRASH.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE COUP DE GRACE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. FLIGHT.
CHAPTER XXIX. CHARLES'S RETREAT UPON LONDON.
CHAPTER XXX. MR. SLOANE.
CHAPTER XXXI. LIEUTENANT HORNBY.
CHAPTER XXXII. SOME OF THE HUMOURS OF A LONDON MEWS.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A GLIMPSE OF SOME OLD FRIENDS.
CHAPTER XXXIV. IN WHICH FRESH MISCHIEF IS BREWED.
CHAPTER XXXV. IN WHICH AN ENTIRELY NEW, AND, AS WILL BE SEEN
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE DERBY.
CHAPTER XXXVII. LORD WELTER'S MENAGE.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE HOUSE FULL OF GHOSTS.
CHAPTER XXXIX. CHARLES'S EXPLANATION WITH LORD WELTER.
CHAPTER XL. A DINNER PARTY AMONG SOME OLD FRIENDS.
CHAPTER XLI. CHARLES'S SECOND EXPEDITION TO ST. JOHN'S WOOD.
CHAPTER XLII. RAVENSHOE HALL, DURING ALL THIS.
CHAPTER XLIII. THE MEETING.
CHAPTER XLIV. ANOTHER MEETING.
CHAPTER XLV. HALF A MILLION.
CHAPTER XLVI. TO LUNCH WITH LORD ASCOT.
CHAPTER XLVII. LADY HAINAULT'S BLOTTING-BOOK.
CHAPTER XLVIII. IN WHICH CUTHBERT BEGINS TO SEE THINGS IN A NEW LIGHT.
CHAPTER XLIX. THE SECOND COLUMN OF "THE TIMES" OF THIS DATE, WITH OTHER MATTERS.
CHAPTER L. SHREDS AND PATCHES.
CHAPTER LI. IN WHICH CHARLES COMES TO LIFE AGAIN.
CHAPTER LII. WHAT LORD SALTIRE AND FATHER MACKWORTH SAID WHEN THEY LOOKED OUT OF THE WINDOW.
CHAPTER LIII. CAPTAIN ARCHER TURNS UP.
CHAPTER LIV. CHARLES MEETS HORNBY AT LAST
CHAPTER LV. ARCHER'S PROPOSAL.
CHAPTER LVI. SCUTARI.
CHAPTER LVII. WHAT CHARLES DID WITH HIS LAST EIGHTEEN SHILLINGS.
CHAPTER LVIII. THE NORTH SIDE OF GROSVENOR SQUARE.
CHAPTER LIX. LORD ASCOT'S CROWNING ACT OF FOLLY.
CHAPTER LX. THE BRIDGE AT LAST.
CHAPTER LXI. SAVED.
CHAPTER LXII. MR. JACKSON'S BIG TROUT.
CHAPTER LXIII. IN WHICH GUS CUTS FLORA'S DOLL'S CORNS.
CHAPTER LXIV. THE ALLIED ARMIES ADVANCE ON RAVENSHOE.
CHAPTER LXV. FATHER MACKWORTH PUTS THE FINISHING TOUCH ON HIS GREAT PIECE OF EMBROIDERY.
CHAPTER LXVI. GUS AND FLORA ARE NAUGHTY IN CHURCH, AND THE WHOLE BUSINESS COMES TO AN END.
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RAVENSHOE
CHARLES IN THE BALACLAVA CHARGE.
Drawn by R. Caton Woodville.
Ravenshoe. Page 355. RAVENSHOE
BY
HENRY KINGSLEY
NEW EDITION—THIRD THOUSAND
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY R. CATON WOODVILLE
LONDON
WARD, LOCK AND BOWDEN, LIMITED
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE
1894
[All rights reserved]
To
MY BROTHER,
CHARLES KINGSLEY,
I DEDICATE THIS TALE,
IN TOKEN OF A LOVE WHICH ONLY GROWS STRONGER
AS WE BOTH GET OLDER.
