	PART I
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Keate’s Way	[11]
II	The Home	[17]
III	The Confidant	[23]
IV	The Neighbouring Pine	[29]
V	Quod erat Demonstrandum	[35]
VI	Timothy Shelley’s Vigorous Dialectics	[40]
VII	An Academy for Young Ladies	[47]
VIII	This Despotic Chain	[54]
IX	A Very Young Couple	[59]
X	Hogg	[65]
XI	Hogg (continued)	[72]
XII	First Encounter with Middle Age	[76]
XIII	Soap Bubbles	[85]
XIV	The Venerated Friend	[92]
XV	Miss Hitchener	[97]
XVI	Harriet	[102]
XVII	Comparisons	[108]
XVIII	Second Incarnation of the Goddess	[116]

	PART II
XIX	A Six Weeks’ Tour	[125]
XX	The Pariahs	[130]
XXI	Godwin	[138]
XXII	Don Juan Conquered	[144]
XXIII	Ariel and Don Juan	[150]
XXIV	Graves in the Garden of Love	[159]
XXV	The Rules of the Game	[166]
XXVI	“Queen of Marble and of Mud”	[175]
XXVII	The Roman Cemetery	[184]
XXVIII	“Any Wife to Any Husband”	[189]
XXIX	The Cavalier’ Sirvente	[198]
XXX	A Scandalous Letter	[204]
XXXI	Lord Byron’s Silence	[207]
XXXII	Miranda	[214]
XXXIII	The Disciples	[220]
XXXIV	ii Samuel xii. 23	[226]
XXXV	The Refuge	[232]
XXXVI	Ariel Set Free	[239]
XXXVII	Last Links	[247]

ARIEL

PART I

So I turned to the Garden of Love

That so many sweet flowers bore;

And I saw it was filled with graves.

William Blake

CHAPTER I
KEATE’S WAY

In the year 1809 George III appointed as Headmaster of Eton, Dr. Keate, a terrible little man who considered the flogging-block a necessary station on the road to perfection, and who ended a sermon on the Sixth Beatitude by saying, “Now, boys, be pure in heart! For if not, I’ll flog you until you are!”

PART I

CHAPTER IKEATE’S WAY

CHAPTER I
KEATE’S WAY