1895
CONTENTS
[ CHAPTER I. ] ENTER DAME GOSSIP AS CHORUS
[ CHAPTER II. ] MISTRESS GOSSIP TELLS OF THE ELOPEMENT OF THE COUNTESS OF CRESSETT WITH THE OLD BUCCANEER
[ CHAPTER III. ] CONTINUATION OF THE INTRODUCTORY MEANDERINGS OF DAME GOSSIP, TOGETHER WITH HER SUDDEN EXTINCTION
[ CHAPTER IV. ] MORNING AND FAREWELL TO AN OLD HOME
[ CHAPTER V. ] A MOUNTAIN WALK IN MIST AND SUNSHINE
[ CHAPTER VI. ] THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
[ CHAPTER VII. ] THE LADY’S LETTER
[ CHAPTER VIII. ] OF THE ENCOUNTER OF TWO STRANGE YOUNG MEN AND THEIR CONSORTING
[ CHAPTER IX. ] CONCERNING THE BLACK GODDESS FORTUNE AND THE WORSHIP OF HER
[ CHAPTER X. ] SMALL CAUSES
[ CHAPTER XI. ] THE PRISONER OF HIS WORD
[ CHAPTER XII. ] HENRIETTA’S LETTER TREATING OF THE GREAT EVENT
[ CHAPTER XIII. ] AN IRRUPTION. OF MISTRESS GOSSIP IN BREACH OF THE CONVENTION
[ CHAPTER XIV. ] A PENDANT OF THE FOREGOING
[ CHAPTER XV. ] OPENING STAGE OF THE HONEYMOON
[ CHAPTER XVI. ] IN WHICH THE BRIDE FROM FOREIGN PARTS IS GIVEN A TASTE OF OLD ENGLAND
[ CHAPTER XVII. ] RECORDS A SHADOW CONTEST CLOSE ON THE FOREGOING
[ CHAPTER XVIII. ] DOWN WHITECHAPEL WAY
[ CHAPTER XIX. ] THE GIRL MADGE
[ CHAPTER XX. ] STUDIES IN FOG, GOUT, AN OLD SEAMAN, AND A LOVELY SERPENT
[ CHAPTER XXI. ] IN WHICH WE HAVE FURTHER GLIMPSES OF THE WONDROUS MECHANISM OF OUR YOUNGER MAN
[ CHAPTER XXII. ] A RIGHT-MINDED GREAT LADY
[ CHAPTER XXIII. ] IN DAME GOSSIP’S VEIN
[ CHAPTER XXIV. ] A KIDNAPPING AND NO GREAT HARM
[ CHAPTER XXV. ] THE PHILOSOPHER MAN OF ACTION
[ CHAPTER XXVI. ] AFTER SOME FENCING THE DAME PASSES OUR GUARD
[ CHAPTER XXVII. ] WE DESCEND INTO A STEAMER’S ENGINE-ROOM
[ CHAPTER XXVIII. ] BY CONCESSIONS TO MISTRESS GOSSIP A FURTHER INTRUSION IS AVERTED
[ CHAPTER XXIX. ] CARINTHIA IN WALES
[ CHAPTER XXX. ] REBECCA WYTHAN
[ CHAPTER XXXI. ] WE HAVE AGAIN TO DEAL WITH THE EXAMPLES OF OUR YOUNGER MAN
[ CHAPTER XXXII. ] IN WHICH WE SEE CARINTHIA PUT IN PRACTICE ONE OF HER OLD FATHER’S LESSONS
[ CHAPTER XXXIII. ] A FRIGHTFUL DEBATE
[ CHAPTER XXXIV. ] A SURVEY OF THE RIDE OF THE WELSH CAVALIERS ESCORTING THE COUNTESS OF FLEETWOOD TO KENTISH ESSLEMONT
[ CHAPTER XXXV. ] IN WHICH CERTAIN CHANGES MAY BE DISCERNED
[ CHAPTER XXXVI. ] BELOW THE SURFACE AND ABOVE
[ CHAPTER XXXVII. ] BETWEEN CARINTHIA AND HER LORD
[ CHAPTER XXXVIII. ] A DIP INTO THE SPRING’S WATERS
[ CHAPTER XXXIX. ] THE RED WARNING FROM A SON OF VAPOUR
[ CHAPTER XL. ] RECORD OF MINOR INCIDENTS
[ CHAPTER XLI. ] IN WHICH THE FATES ARE SEEN AND A CHOICE OF THE REFUGES FROM THEM
[ CHAPTER XLII. ] THE RETARDED COURTSHIP
[ CHAPTER XLIII. ] ON THE ROAD TO THE ACT OF PENANCE
[ CHAPTER XLIV. ] BETWEEN THE EARL, THE COUNTESS AND HER BROTHER, AND OF A SILVER CROSS
[ CHAPTER XLV. ] CONTAINS A RECORD OF WHAT WAS FEARED, WHAT WAS HOPED, AND WHAT HAPPENED
[ CHAPTER XLVI. ] A CHAPTER OF UNDERCURRENTS AND SOME SURFACE FLASHES
[ CHAPTER XLVII. ] THE LAST: WITH A CONCLUDING WORD BY THE DAME