CONTENTS

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In Childhood[1]
I.Otho’s Return[11]
II.Magdalen—and the Neighbourhood[25]
III.Langstroth’s Folly[37]
IV.The Faculty of Close Observation[47]
V.Gilbert’s Cautiousness[56]
VI.Gilbert’s Coup de Theatre’[62]
VII.Michael, Roger, Gilbert[78]
VIII.The First-fruits of the Wisdom of Gilbert[92]
IX.The Goddess of the Tender Feet[102]
X.The Process of Annealing[111]
XI.Otho’s Letter-bag[119]
XII.Eleanor[133]
XIII.Twenty-eight and Twenty-two[145]
XIV.Thrust and Parry[150]
XV.Three Women[163]
XVI.A Friendship explained[172]
XVII.Roger Camm’s Courting[181]
XVIII.A Wild-goose Chase[188]
XIX.Inevitable[204]
XX.How a Thorn was planted[222]
XXI.Work and Wages[237]
XXII.Cross-purposes[255]
XXIII.Quarrel[267]
XXIV.Otho’s Revenge[277]
XXV.In the Ante-room[287]
XXVI.Her Heart’s Desire[296]
XXVII.Recrimination[306]
XXVIII.At the Mills[316]
XXIX.A False Step in Good Faith[327]
XXX.Sermon, by a Sinner[343]
XXXI.Brass Pots and Earthenware Pipkins[359]
XXXII.First Alarm[375]
XXXIII.Broken off[383]
XXXIV.How Crackpot was scratched[391]
XXXV.‘Carelesse Contente’[400]
XXXVI.The Shadow[409]
XXXVII.The Return[418]
XXXVIII.Ada[432]
XXXIX.The Brothers[440]
XL.‘Amidst the Blaze of Noon’[449]
XLI.‘Let me alone’[460]
XLII.How Ada solved her Problem[465]
XLIII.Magdalen. In Valediction[474]

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