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| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof | 1 |
| II. | Giving the Very Earliest Information Obtainable of the Hero of this Book | 7 |
| III. | Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial | 19 |
| IV. | Raising Problems which it is the Purpose of this History to Resolve | 25 |
| V. | In which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life | 34 |
| VI. | Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour | 44 |
| VII. | Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-glass to Fate | 57 |
| VIII. | Enter a Child of Promise | 69 |
| IX. | In which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son | 76 |
| X. | The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast | 84 |
BOOK II
THE BREAKING OF DREAMS
| I. | Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress | 93 |
| II. | In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included | 104 |
| III. | Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day | 117 |
| IV. | Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable | 128 |
| V. | In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat | 140 |
| VI. | Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul | 149 |
| VII. | An Attempt to Make the Best of It | 159 |
| VIII. | Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair | 169 |
BOOK III
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
| I. | In which Our Hero's World Grows Sensibly Wider | 181 |
| II. | Telling How Dickie's Soul was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood | 186 |
| III. | In which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another | 195 |
| IV. | Julius March Bears Testimony | 203 |
| V. | Telling How Queen Mary's Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor | 215 |
| VI. | In which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated | 231 |
| VII. | Wherein the Reader is Courteously Invited to Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons of Quality | 240 |
| VIII. | Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from which There is no Turning Back | 252 |
| IX. | Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance | 264 |
| X. | Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets | 280 |
| XI. | Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love | 289 |
BOOK IV
A SLIP BETWIXT CUP AND LIP
| I. | Lady Louisa Barking Traces the Finger of Providence | 302 |
| II. | Telling How Vanity Fair Made Acquaintance with Richard Calmady | 314 |
| III. | In which Katherine Tries to Nail Up the Weather-glass to Set Fair | 324 |
| IV. | A Lesson Upon the Eleventh Commandment—"Parents Obey Your Children" | 337 |
| V. | Iphigenia | 350 |
| VI. | In which Honoria St. Quentin Takes the Field | 362 |
| VII. | Recording the Astonishing Valour Displayed by a Certain Small Mouse in a Corner | 375 |
| VIII. | A Manifestation of the Spirit | 386 |
| IX. | In which Dickie Shakes Hands with the Devil | 397 |
BOOK V
RAKE'S PROGRESS
| I. | In which the Reader is Courteously Entreated to Grow Older by the Space of Some Four Years, and to Sail Southward Ho! Away | 417 |
| II. | Wherein Time is Discovered to Have Worked Changes | 429 |
| III. | Helen de Vallorbes Apprehends Vexatious Complications | 438 |
| IV. | "Mater Admirabilis" | 447 |
| V. | Exit Camp | 455 |
| VI. | In which M. Paul Destournelle Has the Bad Taste to Threaten to Upset the Apple-cart | 469 |
| VII. | Splendide Mendax | 479 |
| VIII. | Helen de Vallorbes Learns Her Rival's Name | 490 |
| IX. | Concerning that Daughter of Cupid and Psyche Whom Men Call Voluptas | 506 |
| X. | The Abomination of Desolation | 511 |
| XI. | In which Dickie Goes to the End of the World and Looks Over the Wall | 526 |
BOOK VI
THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH
| I. | Miss St. Quentin Bears Witness to the Faith that is in Her | 544 |
| II. | Telling How, Once Again, Katherine Calmady Looked on Her Son | 555 |
| III. | Concerning a Spirit in Prison | 566 |
| IV. | Dealing with Matters of Hearsay and Matters of Sport | 575 |
| V. | Telling How Dickie Came to Untie a Certain Tag of Rusty, Black Ribbon | 588 |
| VI. | A Litany of the Sacred Heart | 600 |
| VII. | Wherein Two Enemies are Seen to Cry Quits | 611 |
| VIII. | Concerning the Brotherhood Founded by Richard Calmady, and Other Matters of Some Interest | 628 |
| IX. | Telling How Ludovic Quayle and Honoria St. Quentin Watched the Trout Rise in the Long Water | 639 |
| X. | Concerning a Day of Honest Warfare and a Sunset Harbinger Not of the Night But of the Dawn | 655 |
| XI. | In which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-suffering Reader Farewell | 679 |
