CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I. [Motherless][1]
II. "[The Look"—Rubens—Mrs. Bundle Again][6]
III. [The Dark Lady—Trouble Impending—Beautiful, Golden Mamma][12]
IV. [Aunt Maria—The Enemy Routed—London Town][20]
V. [My Cousins—Miss Blomfield—The Boy in Black][31]
VI. [The Little Baronet—Dolls—Cinder Parcels—The Old Gentleman Next Door—The Zoological Gardens][40]
VII. [Polly and I Resolve to be "Very Religious"—Dr. Pepjohn—The Alms-Box—The Blind Beggar][52]
VIII. [Visiting the Sick][61]
IX. ["Peace be to this House"][67]
X. [Convalescence—Matrimonial Intentions—The Journey to Oakford—Our Welcome][72]
XI. [The Tinsmith's—The Beaver Bonnets—A Flat Iron for a Farthing—I Fail to Secure a Sister—Rubens and the Doll][80]
XII. [The Little Ladies Again—The Meads—The Drowned Doll][86]
XIII. [Polly—The Pew and the Pulpit—The Fate of the Flat Iron][93]
XIV. [Rubens and I "drop in" at the Rectory—Gardens and Gardeners—My Father Comes for me][102]
XV. [Nurse Bundle is Magnanimous—Mr. Gray—An Explanation with my Father][111]
XVI. [The real Mr. Gray—Nurse Bundle regards him with Disfavour][120]
XVII. [I fail to teach Latin to Mrs. Bundle—The Rector teaches me][129]
XVIII. [The Asthmatic Old Gentleman and his Riddles—I play Truant again—In the Big Garden][139]
XIX. [The Tutor—The Parish—A new Contributor to the Alms-box][144]
XX. [The Tutor's Proposal—A Teachers' Meeting][151]
XXI. [Oakford once more—The Satin Chairs—The Housekeeper—The Little Ladies Again—Family Monuments][155]
XXII. [Nurse Bundle finds a Vocation—Ragged Robin's Wife—Mrs. Bundle's Ideas on Husbands and Public-Houses][164]
XXIII. [I go to Eton—My Master—I serve him well][173]
XXIV. [Collections—Leo's Letter—Nurse Bundle and Sir Lionel][180]
XXV. [The Death of Rubens—Polly's News—Last Times][185]
XXVI. [I hear from Mr. Jonathan Andrewes—Yorkshire—Alathea alias Betty—We bury our Dead out of our Sight—Voices of the North][196]
XXVII. [The New Rector—Aunt Maria tries to find him a Wife—My Father has a similar care for me][204]
XXVIII. [I believe myself to be broken-hearted—Maria in Love—I make an Offer of Marriage, which is neither accepted nor refused][210]
XXIX. [The Future Lady Damer—Polly has a Secret—Under the Mulberry-Tree][219]
XXX. [I meet the Heiress—I find myself mistaken on many points—A new Knot in the Family Complications][226]
XXXI. [My Lady Frances—The Future Lady Damer—We understand each other at last][230]
XXXII. [We come home—Mrs. Bundle quits Service][234]