E-text prepared by D. Alexander, Barbara Kosker, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/tatterdemalion00galsiala TATTERDEMALION by JOHN GALSWORTHY "Gentillesse cometh fro' God allone." --_Chaucer_ New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 Copyright, 1917, 1918, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Ridgway Company Copyright, 1919, by The New Republic Publishing Co., Inc. Copyright, 1914, 1916, 1919, by The Atlantic Monthly Co. [Illustration] * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR VILLA RUBEIN, and Other Stories THE ISLAND PHARISEES THE MAN OF PROPERTY THE COUNTRY HOUSE FRATERNITY THE PATRICIAN THE DARK FLOWER THE FREELANDS BEYOND FIVE TALES SAINT'S PROGRESS TATTERDEMALION A COMMENTARY A MOTLEY THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY THE LITTLE MAN, and Other Satires A SHEAF ANOTHER SHEAF ADDRESSES IN AMERICA: 1919 PLAYS: FIRST SERIES _and Separately_ THE SILVER BOX JOY STRIFE PLAYS: SECOND SERIES _and Separately_ THE ELDEST SON THE LITTLE DREAM JUSTICE PLAYS: THIRD SERIES _and Separately_ THE FUGITIVE THE PIGEON THE MOB A BIT O' LOVE MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS MEMORIES. Illustrated * * * * * TO ELIZABETH LUCAS CONTENTS PART I.--OF WAR-TIME PAGE I. THE GREY ANGEL 3 II. DEFEAT 27 III. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM 51 IV. THE BRIGHT SIDE 75 V. "CAFARD" 105 VI. RECORDED 117 VII. THE RECRUIT 125 VIII. THE PEACE MEETING 137 IX. "THE DOG IT WAS THAT DIED" 147 X. IN HEAVEN AND EARTH 169 XI. THE MOTHER STONE 173 XII. POIROT AND BIDAN 179 XIII. THE MUFFLED SHIP 187 XIV. HERITAGE 191 XV. 'A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY' 199 PART II.--OF PEACE-TIME I. SPINDLEBERRIES 209 II. EXPECTATIONS 227 III. MANNA 239 IV. A STRANGE THING 255 V. TWO LOOKS 271 VI. FAIRYLAND 279 VII. THE NIGHTMARE CHILD 283 VIII. BUTTERCUP-NIGHT 295 TATTERDEMALION _PART I_ OF WAR-TIME I THE GREY ANGEL