CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| 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.