But, my good friend, pray tell, what can such people e'er meet with That can be truly call'd great?--what that is great can they do? SCHILLER: _Shakespeare's Ghost_. (_Bowring's translation._) CONTENTS Author's Dedication I A Social Gathering II Crisostomo Ibarra III The Dinner IV Heretic and Filibuster V A Star in a Dark Night VI Capitan Tiago VII An Idyl on an Azotea VIII Recollections IX Local Affairs X The Town XI The Rulers XII All Saints XIII Signs of Storm XIV Tasio: Lunatic or Sage IV The Sacristans XVI Sisa XVII Basilio XVIII Souls In Torment XIX A Schoolmaster's Difficulties XX The Meeting in the Town Hall XXI The Story of a Mother XXII Lights and Shadows XXIII Fishing XXIV In the Wood XXV In the House of the Sage XXVI The Eve of the Fiesta XXVII In the Twilight XXVIII Correspondence XXIX The Morning XXX In the Church XXXI The Sermon XXXII The Derrick XXXIII Free Thought XXXIV The Dinner XXXV Comments XXXVI The First Cloud XXXVII His Excellency XXXVIII The Procession XXXIX Doña Consolación XL Right and Might XLI Two Visits XLII The Espadañas XLIII Plans XLIV An Examination of Conscience XLV The Hunted XLVI The Cockpit XLVII The Two Señoras XLVIII The Enigma XLIX The Voice of the Hunted L Elias's Story LI Exchanges LII The Cards of the Dead and the Shadows LIII Il Buon Dí Si Conosce Da Mattina LIV Revelations LV The Catastrophe LVI Rumors and Belief LVII Vae Victis! LVIII The Accursed LIX Patriotism and Private Interests LX Maria Clara Weds LXI The Chase on the Lake LXII Padre Damaso Explains LXIII Christmas Eve Epilogue Glossary AUTHOR'S DEDICATION To My Fatherland: Recorded in the history of human sufferings is a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains. Thus, how many times, when in the midst of modern civilizations I have wished to call thee before me, now to accompany me in memories, now to compare thee with other countries, hath thy dear image presented itself showing a social cancer like to that other!