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Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Relics of General Chassé
  4. The O’Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo
  5. The Courtship of Susan Bell
  6. An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
  7. The Château of Prince Polignac
  8. Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica
  9. John Bull on the Guadalquivir
  10. La Mère Bauche
  11. A Ride Across Palestine
  12. Mrs. General Talboys
  13. The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne
  14. The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
  15. The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich
  16. Returning Home
  17. Aaron Trow
  18. The Mistletoe Bough
  19. George Walker at Suez
  20. The Journey to Panama
  21. The Widow’s Mite
  22. The Two Generals
  23. Miss Ophelia Gledd
  24. Malachi’s Cove
  25. The Gentle Euphemia
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
    6. VI
    7. VII
    8. VIII
  26. Father Giles of Ballymoy
  27. Lotta Schmidt
  28. The Adventures of Fred Pickering
  29. The Last Austrian Who Left Venice
  30. The Turkish Bath
  31. Mary Gresley
  32. Josephine de Montmorenci
  33. The Panjandrum
    1. Part I: Hope
    2. Part II: Despair
  34. The Spotted Dog
    1. Part I: The Attempt
    2. Part II: The Result
  35. Mrs. Brumby
  36. Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage
    1. I: What Maurice Archer Said About Christmas
    2. II: Kirkby Cliffe Church
    3. III: Showing How Isabel Lownd Told a Lie
    4. IV: Showing How Isabel Lownd Repented Her Fault
  37. Christmas at Thompson Hall
    1. I: Mrs. Brown’s Success
    2. II: Mrs. Brown’s Failure
    3. III: Mrs. Brown Attempts to Escape
    4. IV: Mrs. Brown Does Escape
    5. V: Mrs. Brown at Thompson Hall
  38. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices
    1. I: The Brunnenthal Peacock
    2. II: The Beginning of Troubles
    3. III: The Question of the Mitgift
    4. IV: The Frau Returns to the Simplicity of the Old Days
    5. V: A Zwanziger Is a Zwanziger
    6. VI: Hoff the Butcher
    7. VII: And Gold Becomes Cheap
    8. VIII: It Doesn’t Make Any Difference to Any of Them
  39. The Telegraph Girl
    1. I: Lucy Graham and Sophy Wilson
    2. II: Abraham Hall
    3. III: Sophy Wilson Goes to Hastings
    4. IV: Mr. Brown the Hairdresser
    5. V: Abraham Hall Married
  40. The Lady of Launay
    1. I: How Bessy Pryor Became a Young Lady of Importance
    2. II: How Bessy Pryor Wouldn’t Marry the Parson
    3. III: How Bessy Pryor Came to Love the Heir of Launay
    4. IV: How Bessy Pryor Owned That She Was Engaged
    5. V: How Bessy Pryor Ceased to Be a Young Lady of Importance
    6. VI: How Bessy Pryor Was to Be Banished
    7. VII: How Bessy Pryor Was Banished to Normandy
    8. VIII: How Bessy Pryor Received Two Letters from Launay
    9. IX: How Bessy Pryor Answered the Two Letters, and What Came of It
    10. X: How Bessy Pryor’s Lover Argued His Case
    11. XI: How Bessy Pryor Received Her Lover
    12. XII: How Bessy Pryor Was Brought Back, and What Then, Became of Her
  41. Alice Dugdale
    1. I: The Doctor’s Family
    2. II: Major Rossiter
    3. III: Lady Wanless
    4. IV: The Beethamites
    5. V: The Invitation
    6. VI: The Archery Meeting
    7. VII: After the Party
    8. VIII: Sir Walter Up in London
    9. IX: Lady Deepbell
    10. X: The Bird That Pecked at the Window
  42. The Two Heroines of Plumplington
    1. I: The Two Girls
    2. II: “Down I Shall Go”
    3. III: Mr. Greenmantle Is Much Perplexed
    4. IV: Jack Hollycombe
    5. V: Dr. Freeborn and Philip Hughes
    6. VI: The Young Ladies Are to Be Taken Abroad
    7. VII: The Young Ladies Are to Remain at Home
    8. VIII: Christmas-Day
  43. Endnotes
  44. Colophon
  45. Uncopyright

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  1. Short Fiction
  2. Endnotes