Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net MARGARITA'S SOUL [Illustration: THEY CROONED TOGETHER THERE, THE WOMAN, THE CHILD AND THE BIRDS] MARGARITA'S SOUL THE ROMANTIC RECOLLECTIONS OF A MAN OF FIFTY BY INGRAHAM LOVELL WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. SCOTT WILLIAMS AND WHISTLER BUTTERFLY DECORATIONS LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMIX _Copyright, 1909_ By THE PHILLIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY _Copyright, 1909_ By JOHN LANE COMPANY * * * * * CONTENTS PART I IN WHICH YOU SEE A SECRET SPRING CHAPTER PAGE I. Fate Walks Broadway 11 II. Fate Goes A-fishing 17 III. As the Twigs Were Bent 28 IV. Fate Reels In 37 PART II IN WHICH THE SPRING FLOWS IN A LITTLE STREAM V. Roger Finds the Island 47 VI. Fate Casts Her Die 59 VII. I Ride Knight Errant 66 VIII. The Mists of Eden 74 PART III IN WHICH THE STREAM JOINS WITH OTHERS AND PLUNGES DOWN A CLIFF IX. Margarita Meets the Enemy and He is Hers 81 X. Fate Spreads an Island Feast 87 XI. Our Parson Proves Capable 94 XII. I Leave Eden 105 PART IV IN WHICH THE STREAM WINDS THROUGH A SULLEN MARSH AND BECOMES A BROOK XIII. Straws that Showed the Wind 111 XIV. The Island Cottage 118 XV. Fate Plays Me in the Shallows 130 XVI. Margarita Comes to Town 141 PART V IN WHICH THE BROOK BECOMES A RIVER AND FLOWS BY GREAT CITIES XVII. Our Pearl Bathes in Seine Water 149 XVIII. My Pearl of Too Great Price 157 XIX. Fate Lands Me on the Rocks 164 PART VI IN WHICH YOU ARE SHOWN THE RIVER'S VERY SOURCES, FAR UNDERGROUND XX. A Garden Glimpse of Eden 181 XXI. Hester Prynne's Secret 186 XXII. Fate Laughs and Baits Her Hook 196 PART VII