Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Social classes -- England -- Fiction
OF THE GRAUBOSCHIAN PHILOSOPHY. HOW JUDITH ARKROYD WALKED
WITH MR. CHALLIS TO THE RECTORY. HOW HE SAID NOTHING
ABOUT HIS WIFE BEING HIS DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. HOW HE
WAS OUT OF HIS ELEMENT AT THE RECTORY. SALADIN AND HIS
CAT. HIS HEDGEHOG 57
CHAPTER VII
OF OTHER GUESTS AND THEIR TALK. OF A SOFA-HAVEN AND HOW MISS
ARKROYD PERCEIVED THAT MR. CHALLIS COULD WRITE A TRAGEDY.
BEAUTY A MATTER OF OPINION 76
CHAPTER VIII
OF HOW NO ACCIDENT HAD REALLY HAPPENED TO THE MOTOR-CAR.
OF A COMBAT BETWEEN TWO SISTERS, CHIEFLY ABOUT THOSE
OF PEOPLE'S DECEASED WIVES. OF FLIRTATIONS WITH MARRIED
MEN. HOW CHALLIS WROTE A LONG AMUSING LETTER TO
MARIANNE 89
CHAPTER IX
HOW MARIANNE SHOWED THAT LETTER TO AN INTIMATE FRIEND,
MRS. ELDRIDGE. WHERE WAS THAT SOFA? OF COUNTRY AND
TOWN HOUSES. JEALOUSY 101
CHAPTER X
CHALLIS'S _adieu_ TO MISS ARKROYD. A LONG RIDE HOME, AND A
COLD WELCOME. BUT IT WAS JOLLY TO BE BACK, AT ANY RATE.
MISS ARKROYD'S MESSAGE DELIVERED 120
CHAPTER XI
VATTED RUM CORNER, AND CHESTNUTS. A YOUNG TURK. HOW
LIZARANN TOLD MOTHER GROVES OF THE FLYING DUTCHMAN.
OF AN AMBULANCE, AND WHAT WAS IN IT. HOW LIZARANN
WENT HOME WITHOUT DADDY 135
CHAPTER XII
HOW UNCLE BOB HAD THE HORRORS. HOW LIZARANN ATE COLD
CHESTNUTS IN BED. DELIRIUM TREMENS. HOW JIM COULD
SEE AT NIGHT, AND WAS UNDER THE BED. POLICE! 148
CHAPTER XIII
HOW THE RECTOR OF ROYD TOOK A WRONG TURNING, AND PICKED
UP LIZARANN IN THE SNOW. MR. STEPTOE'S KNIFE, AND HOW
LIZARANN MADE HIM LEAVE HOLD OF IT. HOW AUNT STINGY
WAS HANDY IN CASE OF ANYTHING, AND UNCLE BOB WENT TO
SLEEP ON A SECOND-HAND SOFA 163
CHAPTER XIV
OF THE END OF THE BLIZZARD, AND OF SIMON MAGUS. HOW MR.
TAYLOR FOUND A DOCTOR. OF A CHASE THROUGH THE SNOW, AND
A CANAL LOCK. WHAT WAS FOUND IN IT. BUT SIMON WAS
INVISIBLE 175
CHAPTER XV
HOW LIZARANN WAS TAKEN TO MISS FOSSETT'S, BUT HAD A STITCH
IN HER SIDE, AND WASN'T TO GO TO DADDY TO-DAY. HOW THE
RECTOR WENT TO JIM IN THE HOSPITAL, AND JIM WAS DISAPPOINTED
ABOUT HIM 187
CHAPTER XVI
BREAKFAST IN GROSVENOR SQUARE. STRAINED RELATIONS OF TWO
SISTERS. A BATTLE INTERRUPTED. SAMARIA A GOOD-NATURED
PLACE. WHO WAS TO PAY? 202
CHAPTER XVII
LADY ARKROYD'S VISIT TO JIM. GOODY TALK. JIM AND HIS MAKER.
HOW MR. TAYLOR VISITED ANOTHER CASE. A DEATH-BED CONFESSION 213
CHAPTER XVIII
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