ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.

[Book I]
	PAGE
[PROEM]		[1]
CHAP.
[I.]	SOLITUDE	[5]
[II.]	THE DEAD MAN MAKES HIS FIRST AND LAST APPEARANCE	[23]
[III.]	THE THOUGHTS OF YOUTH	[33]
[IV.]	“MAN PROPOSES”	[45]
[V.]	PEGGY THE WATER-DRINKER	[58]
[VI.]	DISILLUSIONS	[69]
[VII.]	THE APPRENTICE	[83]
[VIII.]	A WANDER-YEAR	[99]
[IX.]	ARTIST AND PURITAN	[113]
[X.]	EXODUS	[123]
[Book II]
[I.]	IN LONDON	[132]
[II.]	GRAINGER’S	[145]
[III.]	THE ELDER BRANCH	[161]
[IV.]	THE PICTURE-MAKERS	[181]
[V.]	A SYMPOSIUM	[202]
[VI.]	THE OUTCAST	[218]
[VII.]	TOWARDS THE DEEPS	[229]
[VIII.]	“GOLD MEDAL NIGHT”	[245]
[IX.]	DEFEAT	[259]
[X.]	MATT RECEIVES SUNDRY HOSPITALITIES	[273]
[XI.]	A HOSTAGE TO FORTUNE	[290]
[Book III]
[I.]	CONQUEROR OR CONQUERED?	[308]
[II.]	“SUCCESS”	[325]
[III.]	“VAIN-LONGING”	[342]
[IV.]	FERMENT	[364]
[V.]	A CELEBRITY AT HOME	[384]
[VI.]	A DEVONSHIRE IDYL	[408]
[VII.]	THE IDYL CONCLUDES	[438]
[VIII.]	ELEANOR WYNDWOOD	[460]
[IX.]	RUTH HAILEY	[487]
[X.]	THE MASTER	[499]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[“ ‘THERE!’ SAID OLIVE, PUFFING OUT A THIN CLOUD”]	[Frontispiece]
[“HE PLACED HIMSELF WITH HIS BACK TO THE DOOR”]	[Facing p. 12]
[“ ‘I AM AFIRE WITH THIRST,’ SHE CRIED”]	[“ 64]
[“ ‘LOR’ BLESS YOU, SIR,’ SAID SHE, ‘I’M NOT WORRYIN’ ABOUT THE RENT’ ”]	[“ 226]
[“ ‘GOOD-NIGHT,’ SHE SAID, SOFTLY”]	[“ 290]
[“MATT DINED WITH HERBERT AT A LITTLE TABLE”]	[“ 338]
[“ALL WAS VERY STILL, SAVE FOR THE ETERNAL MONOTONE OF THE SEA”]	[“ 424]
[“SOMETHING IN THE SCENE THRILLED HIM WITH A SENSE OF RESTFUL KINSHIP”]	[“ 516]

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