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
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
I. In which Our Hero’s World Grows Sensibly Wider 181
II. Telling How Dickie’s Soul was Somewhat Sick, and
How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood 186
III. In which Richard Confirms One Judgment and
Reverses Another 195
IV. Julius March Bears Testimony 203
V. Telling How Queen Mary’s Crystal Ball Came to Fall
on the Gallery Floor 215
VI. In which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own
Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been
Anticipated 231
VII. Wherein the Reader is Courteously Invited to
Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons
of Quality 240
VIII. Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from which There
is no Turning Back 252
IX. Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance 264
X. Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets 280
XI. Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love 289
BOOK IV
A SLIP BETWIXT CUP AND LIP
I. Lady Louisa Barking Traces the Finger of Providence 302
II. Telling How Vanity Fair Made Acquaintance with
Richard Calmady 314
III. In which Katherine Tries to Nail Up the Weather-glass
to Set Fair 324
IV. A Lesson Upon the Eleventh Commandment–“Parents
Obey Your Children” 337
V. Iphigenia 350
VI. In which Honoria St. Quentin Takes the Field 362
VII. Recording the Astonishing Valour Displayed by a
Certain Small Mouse in a Corner 375
VIII. A Manifestation of the Spirit 386
IX. In which Dickie Shakes Hands with the Devil 397
BOOK V
RAKE’S PROGRESS
I. In which the Reader is Courteously Entreated to
Grow Older by the Space of Some Four Years, and
to Sail Southward Ho! Away 417
II. Wherein Time is Discovered to Have Worked Changes 429
III. Helen de Vallorbes Apprehends Vexatious Complications 438
IV. “Mater Admirabilis” 447
V. Exit Camp 455
VI. In which M. Paul Destournelle Has the Bad Taste to
Threaten to Upset the Apple-cart 469
VII. Splendide Mendax 479
VIII. Helen de Vallorbes Learns Her Rival’s Name 490
IX. Concerning that Daughter of Cupid and Psyche Whom
Men Call Voluptas 506
X. The Abomination of Desolation 511
XI. In which Dickie Goes to the End of the World and
Looks Over the Wall 526
BOOK VI
THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH
I. Miss St. Quentin Bears Witness to the Faith that
is in Her 544
II. Telling How, Once Again, Katherine Calmady Looked
on Her Son 555
III. Concerning a Spirit in Prison 566
IV. Dealing with Matters of Hearsay and Matters
of Sport 575
V. Telling How Dickie Came to Untie a Certain Tag
of Rusty, Black Ribbon 588
VI. A Litany of the Sacred Heart 600
VII. Wherein Two Enemies are Seen to Cry Quits 611
VIII. Concerning the Brotherhood Founded by Richard
Calmady, and Other Matters of Some Interest 628
IX. Telling How Ludovic Quayle and Honoria St. Quentin
Watched the Trout Rise in the Long Water 639
X. Concerning a Day of Honest Warfare and a Sunset
Harbinger Not of the Night But of the Dawn 655
XI. In which Richard Calmady Bids the Long-suffering
Reader Farewell 679
The History of Sir Richard Calmady
BOOK I
THE CLOWN
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