With Illustrations By W. Cubitt Cooke.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1904.

TO BARON EMILE ERLANGER

My dear Erlanger,—Through the many anxieties which beset me while I was writing this story, your name was continually recurring, and always with some act of kindness, or some proof of affection. Let me, then, in simple gratitude dedicate to you a volume of which, in a measure, you stand sponsor, and say to the world at large what I have so often said to my own,

How sincerely and heartily I am

Your friend,

CHARLES LEVER. Trieste, February 20th, 1869.

CONTENTS

THAT BOY OF NORCOTT'S.
CHAPTER I. THE TRIAL
CHAPTER II. WITH MY MOTHER
CHAPTER III. WITH MY FATHER
CHAPTER IV. THE VILLA MALIBRAN
CHAPTER V. A FIRST DINNER-PARTY
CHAPTER VI. HOW THE DAYS WENT OYER
CHAPTER VII. A PRIVATE AUDIENCE
CHAPTER VIII. A DARK-ROOM PICTURE
CHAPTER IX. MADAME CLEREMONT
CHAPTER X. PLANNING PLEASURE
CHAPTER XI. A BIRTHDAY DINNER
CHAPTER XII. THE BALL
CHAPTER XIII. A NEXT MORNING
CHAPTER XIV. A GOOD-BYE
CHAPTER XV. A TERRIBLE SHOCK
CHAPTER XVI. FIUME
CHAPTER XVII. HANSERL OF THE YARD
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SAIL ACROSS THE BAY
CHAPTER XIX. AT THE FÊTE
CHAPTER XX. OUR INNER LIFE
CHAPTER XXI. THE OFFICE
CHAPTER XXII. UNWISHED-FOR PROMOTION
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAN WHO TRAVELLED FOR OUR HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIV. MY INSTRUCTIONS
CHAPTER XXV. "ON THE ROAD” IN CROATIA
CHAPTER XXVI. IN HUNGARY
CHAPTER XXVII. SCHLOSS HUNYADI
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SALON
CHAPTER XXIX. AN UNLOOKED-FOR MEETING
CHAPTER XXX. HASTY TIDINGS
CHAPTER XXXI. IN SORROW
CHAPTER XXXII. THE END

THAT BOY OF NORCOTT'S.