CONTENTS

CHAPTER I TORTOISES AND HARES

CHAPTER II THE GOYLE

CHAPTER III THE FIRST SUNDAY

CHAPTER IV CYCLES

CHAPTER V CLIPSTONE FRIENDS

CHAPTER VI THE FRESCOES OF ST. KENELM'S

CHAPTER VII SISTER AND SISTERS

CHAPTER VIII SNOBBISHNESS

CHAPTER IX GONE OVER TO THE ENEMY

CHAPTER X FLOWN

CHAPTER XI ADRIFT

CHAPTER XII "THE KITTIWAKE"

CHAPTER XIII CHIMERAS DIRE

CHAPTER XIV PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED

CHAPTER XV BROODS ASTRAY

CHAPTER XVI THE REGIMENT OF WOMEN

CHAPTER XVII FOXGLOVES AND FLIRTATIONS

CHAPTER XVIII PALACES OR CHURCHES

CHAPTER XIX TWO WEDDINGS

CHAPTER XX FLEETING

CHAPTER XXI THE ELECTRICIANS

CHAPTER XXII ANGEL AND BEAR

CHAPTER XXIII WILLOW WIDOWS

CHAPTER XXIV CRUEL LAWYERS

CHAPTER XXV BEAR AS ADVISER

CHAPTER XXVI NEW PATHS

CHAPTER XXVII A SENTENCE

CHAPTER XXVIII SUMMONED

CHAPTER XXIX SAFE

CHAPTER XXX THE MAIDEN ROCKS

CHAPTER XXXI THE WRECK

CHAPTER XXXII ANCHORED

CHAPTER XXXIII FAREWELL

FOOTNOTES

BY
CHARLOTTE MARY YONGE.

“Youth and age are scholars yet but in the lower school.”

—Tennyson.

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1900

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First Edition, October, 1900.
Reprinted, November, 1900.