Produced by David T. Jones, woodie4, Al Haines & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net LIST OF WORKS TO DATE BY ARNOLD BENNETT NOVELS Lilian Mr. Prohack The Roll-Call The Pretty Lady The Lion's Share These Twain Clayhanger Hilda Lessways The Old Wives' Tale Denry the Audacious The Old Adam The Matador of the Five Towns Helen with the High Hand The Gates of Wrath The Book of Carlotta Buried Alive A Great Man Leonora Whom God Hath Joined A Man from the North Anna of the Five Towns The Glimpse The City of Pleasure The Grand Babylon Hotel Hugo POCKET PHILOSOPHIES Self and Self-Management Married Life Friendship and Happiness The Human Machine How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Literary Taste Mental Efficiency The Author's Craft How to Make the Best of Life PLAYS The Love Match Body and Soul Sacred and Profane Love Judith The Title The Great Adventure Cupid and Commonsense What the Public Wants Polite Farces The Honeymoon _In Collaboration with_ Edward Knoblock Milestones MISCELLANEOUS Our Women Books and Persons Paris Nights The Truth About an Author Liberty! Over There: War Scenes Things That Have Interested Me Things That Have Interested Me (second series) RICEYMAN STEPS A NOVEL BY ARNOLD BENNETT CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne First published 1923 _Printed in Great Britain_ CONTENTS _PART I_ PAGE 1. RICEYMAN STEPS 1 2. THE CUSTOMER 4 3. THE BOOKSELLER AT HOME 9 4. ELSIE 14 5. THE GIFT 21 6. MRS. ARB'S CASE 26 7. UNDER AN UMBRELLA 30 8. THE CARVING-KNIFE 33 9. SUNDAY MORNING 39 10. RICEYMAN SQUARE 43 11. ELSIE'S HOME 48 12. THE BENEFACTRESS 54 13. THE PASSION 58 14. A MAN'S PRIVATE LIFE 67 _PART II_ 1. THE DAY BEFORE 77 2. ELSIE'S RETREAT 86 3. WAXWORKS 90 4. VACUUM 99 5. THE PRIESTESS 103 6. THE NEXT DAY 114 _PART III_ 1. EARLY MORNING 123 2. AFTER BREAKFAST 127 3. INTERNATIONAL 135 4. AFTERNOON 140 5. TEA 146 6. EVENING 155 _PART IV_