CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| [I.] | Things Begin to Happen | [11] |
| "A magician most profound in his art." | ||
| [II.] | On the Other Side of the Hedge | [21] |
| "Give me leave to speak my mind." | ||
| [III.] | Friendship | [32] |
| "True it is that we have seen better days." | ||
| [IV.] | An Unquiet Morning | [41] |
| "You amaze me, ladies!" | ||
| [V.] | Maurice | [50] |
| "The stubbornness of fortune." | ||
| [VI.] | Puzzles | [62] |
| "How weary are my spirits." | ||
| [VII.] | The Magician Makes Tea | [74] |
| "If that love or gold Can in this place buy entertainment, Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed." | ||
| [VIII.] | "To Meet Rosalind" | [85] |
| "Put you in your best array." | ||
| [IX.] | The Lost Ring | [100] |
| "Wear this for me." | ||
| [X.] | Celia | [110] |
| "One out of suits with fortune." | ||
| [XI.] | Making Friends | [118] |
| "Is not that neighborly?" | ||
| [XII.] | The Gilpin Place | [127] |
| "This is the Forest of Arden." | ||
| [XIII.] | In Patricia's Arbor | [141] |
| "O, how full of briers is this working-day world." | ||
| [XIV.] | The Arden Foresters | [147] |
| "Like the old Robin Hood of England." | ||
| [XV.] | A New Member | [158] |
| "In the circle of this forest." | ||
| [XVI.] | Reciprocity | [171] |
| "Take upon command what we have." | ||
| [XVII.] | A New Comrade | [182] |
| "I know you are a gentleman of good conceit." | ||
| [XVIII.] | An Imprisoned Maiden | [198] |
| "The house doth keep itself, There's none within." | ||
| [XIX.] | Old Acquaintance | [212] |
| "And there begins my sadness." | ||
| [XX.] | The Spinet | [222] |
| "Though art not for the fashion of these times." | ||
| [XXI.] | "Under the Greenwood Tree" | [225] |
| "Must you then be proud and pitiless?" | ||
| [XXII.] | Circumstantial Evidence | [242] |
| "I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not." | ||
| [XXIII.] | The Detective | [254] |
| "'Twas I, but 'tis not I." | ||
| [XXIV.] | At The Auction | [265] |
| "Assuredly the thing is to be sold." | ||
| [XXV.] | Questions | [276] |
| "They asked one another the reason." | ||
| [XXVI.] | The President | [284] |
| "—And good in everything." | ||
| [XXVII.] | Old Enemies | [294] |
| "Kindness nobler ever than revenge." | ||
| [XXVIII.] | Better Than Dreams | [298] |
| "I like this place." | ||
| [XXIX.] | At the Magician's | [308] |
| "I would have you." | ||
| [XXX.] | Oak Leaves | [319] |
| "Bid me farewell." |
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| "'How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's lovely rose'" | Frontispiece [12] |
| "Do you know Miss Betty?" | [78] |
| "Looking up, he discovered his visitors" | [153] |
| "They crossed over to speak to her" | [193] |
| "She chose a chest of drawers" | [268] |