At the Beginning of the Fourth Kiss Out Came Her Father | Frontispiece |
I Had Knocked Him Down on Purpose. He Was Crippled for Life | 14 |
Anything Less Congruous as the Bride-Elect of the Debonair Aristide Pujol it Was Impossible to Imagine | 22 |
Had Straightway Poured His Grievances into a Feminine Ear | 32 |
I Found Both Tyres Had Been Punctured in a Hundred Places | 40 |
“Madame,” said Aristide, “You Are Adorable, and I Love You to Distraction” | 50 |
“The Villain Was a Traveller in Buttons—Buttons!” | 60 |
He Burst into Shrieks of Laughter | 64 |
“And You!” shouted Bocardon, Falling on Aristide; “I Must Embrace You Also” | 68 |
Standing on the Arrival Platform of Euston Station | 78 |
“Ah! the Pictures,” cried Aristide, with a Wide Sweep of His Arms | 88 |
“I’ll Take Five Hundred Pounds,” said He, “to Stay in” | 96 |
Between the Folds of a Blanket Peeped the Face of a Sleeping Child | 110 |
He Demonstrated the Proper Application of the Cure | 120 |
It is a Fearsome Thing for a Man to be Left Alone in the Dead of Night with a Young Baby | 124 |
One of the Little Girls in Pigtails Was Holding Him, While Miss Anne Administered the Feeding-Bottle | 134 |
He Must Have Dealt Out Paralyzing Information | 180 |
Fleurette Danced with Aristide, as Light as an Autumn Leaf Tossed by the Wind | 188 |
Aristide Practised His Many Queer Accomplishments | 200 |
He Read It, and Blinked in Amazement | 208 |
He Might as Well Have Pointed Out the Marvels of Kubla Khan’s Pleasure-Dome to a Couple of Guinea-Pigs | 216 |
“I’ve Caught You! At Last, After Twenty Years, I’ve Caught You” | 234 |
There He Saw a Sight Which for a Moment Paralyzed Him | 238 |
Mr. Ducksmith Seized Him by the Lapels of His Coat | 242 |