CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.In Which, if not Love, at Least Anger, Laughs at Locksmiths[13]
II.Providing the Gentle Reader with a Card of Admission to the Nest of the Two Doves[36]
III.In Which a Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted[49]
IV.A Damsel in Distress[64]
V.Which Tells How Cartaret Returned to the Rue du Val-de-Grâce, and What He Found There[84]
VI.Cartaret Sets Up Housekeeping[102]
VII.Of Domestic Economy, of Day-Dreams, and of a Far Country and Its Sovereign Lady[118]
VIII.Chiefly Concerning Strawberries[144]
IX.Being the True Report of a Chaperoned Déjeuner[154]
X.An Account of an Empty Purse and a Full Heart, in the Course of Which the Author Barely Escapes Telling a Very Old Story[169]
XI.Tells How Cartaret’s Fortune Turned Twice in a Few Hours and How He Found One Thing and Lost Another[192]
XII.Narrating How Cartaret Began His Quest of the Rose[206]
XIII.Further Adventures of an Amateur Botanist[222]
XIV.Something or Other About Traditions[253]
XV.In Which Cartaret Takes Part in the Revival of an Ancient Custom[273]
XVI.And Last[300]