| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| [I]. | —CONCERNING TWO LADIES WHO SAT IN THE MALORY PEW | 1 |
| [II]. | —ALL THAT THE DRAPER'S WIFE COULD TELL | 13 |
| [III]. | —HOME TO WARE | 21 |
| [IV]. | —ON THE GREEN OF CARDYLLIAN | 29 |
| [V]. | —A VISIT TO HAZELDEN | 40 |
| [VI]. | —MALORY BY MOONLIGHT | 51 |
| [VII]. | —A VIEW FROM THE REFECTORY WINDOW | 62 |
| [VIII]. | —A NIGHT SAIL | 70 |
| [IX]. | —THE REVEREND ISAAC DIXIE | 81 |
| [X]. | —READING AN EPITAPH | 93 |
| [XI]. | —FAREWELL | 104 |
| [XII]. | —IN WHICH CLEVE VERNEY WAYLAYS AN OLD LADY | 114 |
| [XIII]. | —THE BOY WITH THE CAGE | 122 |
| [XIV]. | —NEWS ABOUT THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS | 135 |
| [XV]. | —WITHIN THE SANCTUARY | 154 |
| [XVI]. | —AN UNLOOKED-FOR VISITOR | 170 |
| [XVII]. | —THEY VISIT THE CHAPEL OF PENRUTHYN AGAIN | 184 |
| [XVIII]. | —CLEVE AGAIN BEFORE HIS IDOL | 203 |
| [XIX]. | —CLEVE VERNEY TAKES A BOLD STEP | 214 |
| [XX]. | —HIS FATE | 227 |
| [XXI]. | —CAPTAIN SHRAPNELL | 236 |
| [XXII]. | —SIR BOOTH SPEAKS | 246 |
| [XXIII]. | —MARGARET HAS HER WARNING | 256 |
| [XXIV]. | —SIR BOOTH IN A PASSION | 263 |
| [XXV]. | —IN WHICH THE LADIES PEEP INTO CARDYLLIAN | 271 |
THE TENANTS OF MALORY.
CHAPTER I.
CONCERNING TWO LADIES WHO SAT IN THE MALORY PEW.
There were tenants at last in Malory; and the curiosity of the honest residents of Cardyllian, the small and antique town close by, was at once piqued and mortified by the unaccountable reserve of these people.
For four years, except from one twisted chimney in the far corner of the old house, no smoke had risen from its flues. Tufts of grass had grown up between the paving-stones of the silent stable-yard, grass had crept over the dark avenue, which, making a curve near the gate, is soon lost among the sombre trees that throw a perpetual shadow upon it; the groves of nettles had spread and thickened among their trunks; and in the signs of neglect and decay, the monastic old place grew more than ever triste.
The pretty little Welsh town of Cardyllian stands near the shingle of a broad estuary, beyond which tower the noble Cambrian mountains. High and dim, tier above tier, undulating hills, broken by misty glens, and clothed with woods, rise from the opposite shore, and are backed, range behind range, by the dim outlines of Alpine peaks and slopes, and flanked by purple and gold-tinted headlands, rising dome-like from the sea.