CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
I.In the City by the Sea[1]
II.After-thoughts[14]
III.“Fairies!”[30]
IV.“The Prelude to some Brighter World”[49]
V.Teatime in Arcadia[56]
VI.Why should he refrain?[67]
VII.He would take his Time[83]
VIII.A Face in the Crowd[92]
IX.“Though Love, and Life, and Death should come and go”[99]
X.“As Things that are not shall these Things be”[106]
XI.“One Thread in Life worth spinning”[116]
XII.“One born to love you, Sweet”[132]
XIII.“The Time of Lovers is Brief”[137]
XIV.As a Spirit from Dream to Dream[143]
XV.“Love should be Absolute Love”[151]
XVI.To Live Forgotten and Love Forlorn[164]
XVII.“She was more Fair than Words can say”[179]
XVIII.“The Shadow passeth when the Tree shall fall”[190]
XIX.“He said, ‘She has a Lovely Face’”[196]
XX.Peggy’s Chance[212]
XXI.“From the Evil to come”[228]
XXII.“So very Wilful”[235]
XXIII.The Little Rift[244]
XXIV.“Poor Kind Wild Eyes so dashed with Light Quick Tears”[257]
XXV.“And every Gentle Passion Sick to Death”[268]
XXVI.“Closer and closer swam the Thunder-cloud”[284]
XXVII.“Thou mayst be False and yet I know it not”[298]
XXVIII.In the Blue Chamber[303]
XXIX.“’Tis not the Same now, never more can be”[311]
XXX.A Double Exile[321]
XXXI.“Oh tell her, Brief is Life, but Love is Long”[325]
XXXII.“A Scene of Light and Glory”[333]
XXXIII.“Both together, he her God, she his Idol”[335]

THE VENETIANS.