CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I. VARICK-STREET]
[CHAPTER II. VERY GOOD LUCK]
[CHAPTER III. KILIAN]
[CHAPTER IV. MY COMPANIONS]
[CHAPTER V. THE TUTOR]
[CHAPTER VI. MATINAL]
[CHAPTER VII. THREE WEEKS TOO LATE]
[CHAPTER VIII. SUNDAY]
[CHAPTER IX. A DANCE]
[CHAPTER X. EVERY DAY FROM SIX TO SEVEN]
[CHAPTER XI. SOPHIE'S WORK]
[CHAPTER XII. PRAEMONITUS, PRAEMUNITUS]
[CHAPTER XIII. THE WORLD GOES ON THE SAME]
[CHAPTER XIV. GUARDED]
[CHAPTER XV. I SHALL HAVE SEEN HIM]
[CHAPTER XVI. AUGUST THIRTIETH]
[CHAPTER XVII. BESIDE HIM ONCE AGAIN]
[CHAPTER XVIII. A JOURNEY]
[CHAPTER XIX. SISTER MADELINE]
[CHAPTER XX. THE HOUR OF DAWN]
[CHAPTER XXI. APRÉS PERDRE, PERD ON BIEN]
[CHAPTER XXII. A GREAT DEAL TOO SOON]
[CHAPTER XXIII. A REVERSAL]
[CHAPTER XXIV. MY NEW WORLD]
[CHAPTER XXV. BIEN PERDU, BIEN CONNU]
[CHAPTER XXVI. A DINNER]
RICHARD VANDERMARCK.
CHAPTER I.
VARICK STREET.
O for one spot of living green,
One little spot where leaves can grow,--
To love unblamed, to walk unseen,
To dream above, to sleep below!
Holmes.
There are in this loud stunning tide,
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th' everlasting chime;
And to wise hearts this certain hope is given;
"No mist that man may raise, shall hide the eye of Heaven."
Keble.
I never knew exactly how the invitation came; I felt very much honored by it, though I think now, very likely the honor was felt to be upon the other side. I was exceedingly young, and exceedingly ignorant, not seventeen, and an orphan, living in the house of an uncle, an unmarried man of nearly seventy, wholly absorbed in business, and not much more interested in me than in his clerks and servants.