CONTENTS
[ BOOK THE FIRST. AMELIUS AMONG THE SOCIALISTS ]
[ BOOK THE SECOND. AMELIUS IN LONDON ]
[ BOOK THE THIRD. MRS. FARNABY’S FOOT ]
[ BOOK THE FOURTH. LOVE AND MONEY ]
[ BOOK THE FIFTH. THE FATAL LECTURE ]
[ BOOK THE SIXTH. FILIA DOLOROSA ]
[ BOOK THE SEVENTH. THE VANISHING HOPES ]
THE PROLOGUE
I
The resistless influences which are one day to reign supreme over our poor hearts, and to shape the sad short course of our lives, are sometimes of mysteriously remote origin, and find their devious ways to us through the hearts and the lives of strangers.
While the young man whose troubled career it is here proposed to follow was wearing his first jacket, and bowling his first hoop, a domestic misfortune, falling on a household of strangers, was destined nevertheless to have its ultimate influence over his happiness, and to shape the whole aftercourse of his life.