XIX. A TEAR 54 XX. ALBERT AND CHARLOTTE 57 XXI. A FRIEND (_Vignette_) 59 XXII. JENNY 64 XXIII. THE PICTURE GALLERY 66 XXIV. PAINTING AND MUSIC 69 XXV. AN OBJECTION 72 XXVI. RAPHAEL 75 XXVII. A PERFECT PICTURE 78 XXVIII. THE UPSET CARRIAGE 81 XXIX. MISFORTUNE 87 XXX. CHARITY 91 XXXI. INVENTORY 93 XXXII. MISANTHROPY 95 XXXIII. CONSOLATION 98 XXXIV. CORRESPONDENCE 99 XXXV. THE WITHERED ROSE (_Vignette_) 104 XXXVI. THE LIBRARY 109 XXXVII. ANOTHER WORLD 113 XXXVIII. THE BUST 118 XXXIX. A DIALOGUE 121 XL. IMAGINATION 129 XLI. THE TRAVELLING-COAT 132 XLII. ASPASIA’S BUSKIN (_Vignette_) 137 LIBERTY 150 Circumstances beyond my control prevented my seeing any proof of these pages. Such Latinized forms as _behavior_ and _favor_; the misplaced hyphen on the first line of page 25; the double _l_ in _skilful_ (p. 138, last line but one); and the frequent suppression of the former of two parenthetical commas (as before I, p. 19, l. 18),--these are the few deviations from my manuscript for which the printer is responsible. The reader will oblige by substituting _comfortable_ for _agreeable_ on page 38 line 3, _sweet_ for _lovely_ on page 68 line 4, and _ignoramuses_ for _ignorant_ on page 78 line 12. H. A. [Illustration: WEYSSIER D. GUILLAUME, S. ] I. _A Book of Discoveries._ What more glorious than to open for one’s self a new career,--to appear suddenly before the learned world with a book of discoveries in one’s hand, like an unlooked-for comet blazing in the empyrean!