1893

Copyright, 1893,

By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

Electrotyped and Printed

at the Appleton Press, U. S. A.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

They came in little straggling strings and bands[Frontispiece]
Cups of tea[3]
Young Browne’s tennis[5]
Her new field of labour[15]
Aunt Plovtree[19]
Initial letter[24]
Initial letter[49]
Uncertain whether she ought to bow[57]
“It’s just the place for centipedes”[63]
Initial letter[68]
“A very worthy and hard-working sort”[79]
“What is this?” said Mrs. Browne[87]
Chua[94]
An accident disclosed them[96]
Mr. Sayter[136]
Mr. Sayter gave Mrs. Browne his arm[138]
Mrs. Lovitt[151]
Initial letter[156]
The ladies went most securely[159]
Initial letter[168]
Mr. Jonas Batcham, M. P.[175]
Three others much like himself[187]
A sudden indisposition[191]
Initial letter[193]
Their hats[210]
Initial letter[214]
“Halma”[222]
Miss Josephine Lovitt[225]
Initial letter[234]
Mr. Week slept on a bench[243]
He stood upon one leg[252]
Initial letter[260]
Initial letter[278]
He asked nothing of the Brownes[282]
The snows[291]
“Liver complications—we all come to it”[297]
She has fallen into a way of crossing her knees in a low chair[309]