| [I] | |
[First Meeting between a Citizen in Spectaclesand the Great
Pleasure-Dog Behemoth; also of Charles Gardiner West, a
Personage at Thirty.] | [3] |
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| [II] | |
[Mrs. Paynter's Boarding-House: which was notfounded as an
Eleemosynary Institution.] | [14] |
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| [III] | |
[Encounter between Charlotte Lee Weyland, aLandlady's Agent,
and Doctor Queed, a Young Man who wouldn't payhisBoard.] | [25] |
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| [IV] | |
[Relating how Two Stars in their Courses foughtfor Mr. Queed;
and how he accepted Remunerative Employment under Colonel
Cowles, the Military Political Economist.] | [40] |
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| [V] |
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[Selections from Contemporary Opinions of Mr.Queed; also concerning
Henry G. Surface, his Life and Deeds; of Fifi, the
Landlady's Daughter, and how she happened to look up Altruism
in the Dictionary.] | [51] |
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| [VI] | |
[Autobiographical Data imparted, for SoundBusiness Reasons,
to a Landlady's Agent; of the Agent's Other Title,etc.] | [64] |
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| [VII] | |
[In which an Assistant Editor, experiencingthe Common Desire
to thrash a Proof-Reader, makes a Humiliating Discovery;
and of how Trainer Klinker gets a Pupil the SameEvening.] | [79] |
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| [VIII] | |
[Formal Invitation to Fifi to share Queed'sDining-Room (provided
it is very cold upstairs); and First Outrage upon the
Sacred Schedule of Hours.] | [93] |
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| [IX] | |
[Of Charles Gardiner West, President-Elect ofBlaines College,
and his Ladies Fair: all in Mr. West's Lighter Manner.] | [104] |
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| [X] | |
[Of Fifi on Friendship, and who would be sorryif Queed died;
of Queed's Mad Impulse, sternly overcome; of his Indignant
Call upon Nicolovius, the Old Professor.] | [114] |
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| [XI] | |
[Concerning a Plan to make a Small Gift to aFellow-Boarder,
and what it led to in the Way of Calls; also touching upon
Mr. Queed's Dismissal from the Post, and the Generous Resolve
of the Young Lady, Charles Weyland.] | [127] |
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| [XII] | |
[More Consequences of the Plan about the Gift,and of how Mr.
Queed drinks his Medicine like a Man; Fifi on Men, and
how they do; Second Corruption of the Sacred Schedule.] | [137] |
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| [XIII] | |
["Taking the Little Doctor Down a Peg orTwo": as performed
for the First and Only Time by Sharlee Weyland.] | [146] |
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| [XIV] | |
[In which Klinker quotes Scripture, and Queedhas helped Fifi
with her Lessons for the Last Time.] | [163] |
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| [XV] | |
[In a Country Churchyard, and afterwards; ofFriends: how they
take your Time while they live, and then die, upsetting your
Evening's Work; and what Buck Klinker saw in the Scriptorium
at 2 a.m..] | [174] |
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| [XVI] | |
[Triumphal Return of Charles Gardiner Westfrom the Old World;
and of how the Other World had wagged in his Absence.] | [186] |
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| [XVII] | |
[A Remeeting in a Cemetery: the UnglassedQueed who loafed on
Rustic Bridges; of the Consequences of failing to tell a Lady
that you hope to see her again soon.] | [200] |
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| [XVIII] | |
[Of President West of Old Blaines College,his Trustees and his
Troubles; his Firmness in the Brown-Jones Hazing Incident
so misconstrued by Malicious Asses; his Article for the Post,
and why it was never printed: all ending in West's Profound
Dissatisfaction with the Rewards of Patriotism.] | [216] |
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| [XIX] | |
[The Little House on Duke of GloucesterStreet; and the Beginning
of Various Feelings, Sensibilities, and Attitudes between two
Lonely Men.] | [239] |
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| [XX] | |
[Meeting of the Post Directors to elect aSuccessor to Colonel
Cowles; Charles Gardiner West's Sensible Remarks on Mr. Queed;Mr.
West's Resignation from Old Blaines College, and NewConsecration
to the Uplift.] | [248] |
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| [XXI] | |
[Queed sits on the Steps with Sharlee, andsees Some Old Soldiers
go marching by.] | [257] |
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| [XXII] | |
[In which Professor Nicolovius drops a Letteron the Floor, and
Queed conjectures that happiness sometimes comes to Men
wearing a Strange Face.] | [274] |
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| [XXIII] | |
[Of the Bill for the Reformatory, and itsCritical Situation; of
West's Second Disappointment with the Rewards of Patriotism;
of the Consolation he found in the Most Charming Resolve
in the World.] | [290] |
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| [XXIV] | |
[Sharlee's Parlor on Another Evening; how OneCaller outsat Two,
and why; also, how Sharlee looked in her Mirror for a Long
Time, and why.] | [300] |
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| [XXV] | |
[Recording a Discussion about the Reformatorybetween Editor
West and his Dog-like Admirer, the City Boss; and a Briefer
Conversation between West and Prof. Nicolovius'sBoarder.] | [312] |
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| [XXVI] | |
[In which Queed forces the Old Professor'sHand, and the Old
Professor takes to his Bed.] | [330] |
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| [XXVII] | |
[Sharlee Weyland reads the Morning Post; ofRev. Mr. Dayne's
Fight at Ephesus and the Telephone Message that never came;
of the Editor's Comment upon the Assistant Editor'sResignation,
which perhaps lacked Clarity; and of how Eight Men
elect a Mayor.] | [345] |
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| [XXVIII] | |
[How Words can be like Blows, and Blue Eyesstab deep; how
Queed sits by a Bedside and reviews his Life; and how a
Thought leaps at him and will not down.] | [363] |
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| [XXIX] | |
[In which Queed's Shoulders can bear OneMan's Roguery and
Another's Dishonor, and of what these Fardels cost him: how
for the Second Time in his Life he stays out of Bed tothink.] | [375] |
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| [XXX] | |
[Death of the Old Professor, and how Queedfinds that his List of
Friends has grown; a Last Will and Testament; Exchange of
Letters among Prominent Attorneys, which unhappily proves
futile.] | [387] |
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| [XXXI] | |
[God moves in a Mysterious Way: how thefinished Miss Avery
appears as the Instrument of Providence; how Sharlee sees
her Idol of Many Years go toppling in the Dust, and how it is
her Turn to meditate in the Still Watches.] | [397] |
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| [XXXII] | |
[Second Meeting between a Citizen and theGreat Pleasure-Dog
Behemoth, involving Plans for Two New Homes.] | [416] |