III. Great lawyers come on the scene; a glimpse of daylight; a very moving letter.--Titmouse and Huckaback think it right to go to church; and the former receives a lesson on landlord-and-tenant law, from Mrs. Squallop 94 IV. A vision of beauty unseen by Mr. Titmouse; who is in the midnight of despair and writes a letter which startles Mr. Quirk.--How Gammon used to wind round Quirk; and the subtle means he took to find out what Titmouse was about 137 V. Gammon tackling Tag-rag.--Satin Lodge, and its refined inmates, who all pay their duty to Titmouse; and he very nearly falls in love with Miss Tag-rag. Cyanochaitanthropopoion 181 VI. Damascus Cream; Tetaragmenon Abracadabra; Titmouse's levee at Closet Court; Mr. Tag-rag's entertainment to him at Satin Lodge; and its disgusting issue 222 VII. The reader is now introduced to quite a different set of people, in Grosvenor Street, and falls in love with Kate Aubrey.--Christmas in the country; Yatton; Madam Aubrey; the Reverend Dr. Tatham; and old Blind Bess 252 VIII. Two strange creatures are seen at Yatton by Mr. Aubrey and his sister; and a hand-grenade is thrown, unseen, at the feet of the latter.--Country life; Yatton; Fotheringham; the two beauties; and an angel beset by an imp 297 IX. The explosion of the hand-grenade; shattered hopes and happiness.--A winter evening's gossip at the Aubrey Arms, among Yatton villagers, and its grievous interruption 332 X. Gammon _versus_ Tag-rag; and Snap _cum_ Titmouse, introducing him to life in London--of one sort.--The feast of reason and the flow of soul at Alibi House; Mr. Quirk's banquet to Titmouse, who is overcome by it.--Titmouse seems to hesitate between Miss Quirk and Kate Aubrey 372 XI. Suffering; dignity; tenderness; resignation 415 XII. How the great flaw was discovered in Mr. Aubrey's title; but a terrible hitch occurs in the proceedings of his opponents 431 XIII. Madam Aubrey's death and burial; Gammon smitten with the sight of Kate Aubrey's beauty; and a great battle takes place at the York assizes for Yatton 454 Notes 507 CHAPTER I.