CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Marmouset[3]
II.The Wood Fire and Its Friends[18]
III.With Special Reference to a Certain Colony of Penguins[34]
IV.The Arrival of a Lady of Quality[60]
V.In which the Difference Between a Cannibal and a Freebooter is Clearly Set Forth[95]
VI.Proving that the Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth[120]
VII.In which Our Landlord Becomes Both Entertaining and Instructive[144]
VIII.Containing Several Experiences and Adventures Showing the Wide Contrasts in Life[163]
IX.In which Madame la Marquise Binds Up Broken Heads and Bleeding Hearts[182]
X.In which We Entertain a Jail-bird[211]
XI.In which the Habits of Certain Ghosts, Goblins, Bandits, and Other Objectionable Persons Are Duly Set Forth[240]
XII.Why Mignon Went to Market[267]
XIII.With a Dissertation on Round Pegs and Square Holes[280]
XIV.A Woman’s Way[304]
XV.Apple-blossoms and White Muslin[335]

ILLUSTRATIONS

Mignon[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
Howls of derision welcomed him[30]
Flooding the garden, the flowers, and the roofs[60]
As her boy’s sagging, insensible body was brought clear of the wreck[132]
Herbert caught up his sketch-book and ... transferred her dear old head ... to paper[184]
Lemois crossed the room and began searching through the old fifteenth-century triptych[240]
“Just think, monsieur, what does go on below Coco in the season”[308]
First, of course, came the mayor—his worthy spouse on his left[350]