ILLUSTRATIONS
["FOOD FOR THE GODS, AND ONLY A BOY TO EAT IT"] Frontispiece
["WE REALLY WANT YOU, SAID MOLLY"]
["SOMETIMES JACK DROVE, WITH MOLLY BESIDE HIM"]
["THE BLUE FLAME OF THE CHAFING-DISH"]
["I WAS SUDDENLY CLAPPED UPON THE SHOULDER"]
["TREADING THE ROAD BUILT BY NAPOLÉON"]
["THERE WAS A PANG WHEN I TURNED MY BACK"]
["THAT IS THE DÉJEUNER OF NAPOLÉON"]
["DOWN, TURK!" "BE QUIET, JUPITER!"]
["ON THE GROUND CROUCHED THE BOY"]
["'DO YOU KNOW,' SAID I, 'YOU ARE A VERY QUEER BOY'"]
["LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW I SAW HIM IN CONVERSATION"]
["SITTING WITH MY BACK TO THE HORSES"]
["HERE WE WERE AT ANNECY"]
["VOILÀ MONSIEUR!"]
["THE ROCK OF MONACO"]
THE PRINCESS PASSES
Woman Disposes
"Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs,
To the silent wilderness."
—Percy Bysshe Shelley.
"To your happiness," I said, lifting my glass, and looking the girl in the eyes. She had the grace to blush, which was the least that she could do, for a moment ago she had jilted me.
The way of it was this.