Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=-zQPAAAAQAAJ (Oxford University) THE TWICKENHAM PEERAGE BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE BEETLE: A MYSTERY MARVELS AND MYSTERIES THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN BOTH SIDES OF THE VEIL THE JOSS: A REVERSION THE ADVENTURES OF AUGUSTUS SHORT THE GODDESS: A DEMON AMUSEMENT ONLY FRIVOLITIES THE CHASE OF THE RUBY THE TWICKENHAM PEERAGE BY RICHARD MARSH METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1902 CONTENTS BOOK I.--THE SLEEPING MAN CHAP. I. A SIDE SHOW. II. LADY DESMOND GIVES A DINNER PARTY. III. CROSS-QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS. IV. MR. MONTAGU BABBACOMBE AWAKES. V. AT THE YORK HOTEL. VI. A MESSAGE FROM THE MARQUIS. VII. MR. FOSTER INTERRUPTS. VIII. DYING. IX. DEAD. X. AND BURIED. BOOK II.--THE LOST HUSBAND XI. AN ENCOUNTER IN PICCADILLY. XII. MRS. MERRETT IS OVER-PERSUADED. XIII. WHO'S THAT CALLING? XIV. HELPING TO MAKE THE PUDDING. XV. THE NEW PEER: AND HIS MOTHER. XVI. MR. FITZHOWARD OPENS THE DOOR. XVII. THE MARCHIONESS IN SPITE OF HERSELF. XVIII. MR. HOWARTH AGAINST THE WORLD. XIX. IN TELEPATHIC COMMUNICATION. XX. THE OPENING OF THE COFFIN. BOOK III.--THE GENTLEMAN WITH NINE LIVES XXI. A PEER IN EMBRYO. XXII. A MARQUIS IN FACT. XXIII. SURPRISES. XXIV. AN IDYLL. XXV. A REVERSION FROM THE IDYLLIC. XXVI. THE SCALES OF JUSTICE. XXVII. A WHIPPING BOY. XXVIII. THE GOING: AND THE COMING. BOOK IV.--THE SINNER XXIX. BACK TO THE WORLD. XXX. THE ONE MAN--AND THE OTHER. XXXI. AN INTERIOR. XXXII. THE LAST JOURNEY TO TWICKENHAM HOUSE. XXXIII. THE TWINKLE IN THE FATHER'S EYES. XXXIV. THE PENITENT. BOOK I.--THE SLEEPING MAN THE STORY IS BEGUN BY THE HON. DOUGLAS HOWARTH CHAPTER I A SIDE SHOW 'You and I can never marry.'