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CONTENTS

BOOK I

THE CLOWN

CHAP. PAGE
I. Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof [ 1 ]
II. Giving the Very Earliest Information Obtainable of the Hero of this Book [ 7 ]
III. Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial [ 19 ]
IV. Raising Problems which it is the Purpose of this History to Resolve [ 25 ]
V. In which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life [ 34 ]
VI. Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour [ 44 ]
VII. Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-glass to Fate [ 57 ]
VIII. Enter a Child of Promise [ 69 ]
IX. In which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son [ 76 ]
X. The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast [ 84 ]

BOOK II

THE BREAKING OF DREAMS

I. Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress [ 93 ]
II. In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things—Himself Included [ 104 ]
III. Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day [ 117 ]
IV. Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable [ 128 ]
V. In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat [ 140 ]
VI. Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul [ 149 ]
VII. An Attempt to Make the Best of It [ 159 ]
VIII. Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair [ 169 ]

BOOK III