THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME
BY
WAYLAND WELLS WILLIAMS
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
J. HENRY
"And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges."—Twelfth Night.
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1916, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages.
CONTENTS
| PART I | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I] | Unwritten Papers | 1 |
| [II] | Aunts | 9 |
| [III] | Not Colonial; Georgian | 19 |
| [IV] | Puppy Dogs, and a Psychological Fact | 28 |
| [V] | Babes in the Wood | 38 |
| [VI] | Arcadia and Yankeedom | 55 |
| [VII] | Omne Ignotum | 69 |
| [VIII] | Livy and Victor Hugo | 77 |
| [IX] | A Long Cheer for Wimbourne | 88 |
| [X] | Rumblings | 101 |
| [XI] | Aunt Selina's Beaux Yeux | 112 |
| [XII] | An Act of God | 121 |
| [XIII] | Sardou | 133 |
| [XIV] | Un-Anglo-Saxon | 141 |
| [XV] | Chiefly Cardiac | 148 |
| [XVI] | The Saddest Tale | 160 |
| PART II | ||
| [I] | Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? | 171 |
| [II] | Congreve | 184 |
| [III] | Not Triassic, Certainly, but Nearly as Old | 200 |
| [IV] | Wild Horses and Champagne | 213 |
| [V] | A Schöne Seele on Pisgah | 224 |
| [VI] | A Long Chapter. But Then, Love Is Long | 233 |
| [VII] | A Very Short Chapter, in One Sense | 252 |
| [VIII] | One Thing and Another | 268 |
| [IX] | Labyrinths | 280 |
| [X] | Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lammle | 299 |
| [XI] | Hesitancies and Tears | 312 |
| [XII] | A Rod of Iron | 326 |
| [XIII] | Red Flame | 343 |
| [XIV] | A Potter's Vessel | 362 |
| [XV] | The Tide Turns | 368 |
| [XVI] | Reinstatement of a Schöne Seele | 376 |