Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13985-h.htm or 13985-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/9/8/13985/13985-h/13985-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/9/8/13985/13985-h.zip) V.V.'S EYES by HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON Author of _Queed_ With Illustrations 1913 To my first, second, and third reader NORVELL Who raises books by hand CONTENTS I Two Houses, with a great Gulf between; of V. Vivian, M.D., and what he thought of John the Baptist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II Two Persons of More Importance, and why they went to the Beach in October; Miss Carlisle Heth, and how she met an Unwelcome Swain at Sea; how this Swain could swim enough for one. . . . . . 12 III How Carlisle screamed when the Boat upset, or else didn't, as the Case might be; also of Mrs. Heth, who went down Six Floors to nail Falsehoods, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 IV Mr. Hugo Canning, of the well-known Pursuing-Sex; how the Great Young Man pursued Miss Heth to a Summer-House, and what stopped his Thundering Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 V Dialogue between V. Vivian, of the Slums, and Mr. Heth's Daughter (or his Niece); and what the lovely Hun saw in the Mr. Vivian's eyes, just before he asked God to pity her. . . . . . . . . . . . 48 VI Of Carlisle's Bewilderment over all the Horrid Talk; of how it wasn't her Fault that Gossip was so Unreliable; of the Greatest Game in the World; also, of Mr. Heth, who didn't look like a Shameless Homicide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 VII How the Great Parti, pursued or pursuing to Cousin Willie Kerr's Apartment, begins thundering again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 VIII Supper with the Cooneys: Poor Relations, but you must be Nice to them; of Hen Cooney's friend V.V., as she irritatingly calls him; also relating how Cally is asked for her Forgiveness, and can't seem to think what to say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 IX Concerning an Abandoned Hotel, and who lived there; also of an Abandoned Youth, who lived somewhere else, Far Away; how a Slum Doctor dressed for a Function, such as involved Studs; and how Kern Garland wishted she was a Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 X A Beautiful New Year's Party, and who spoiled it, and how; how Something is done, after all, for she tells the Man plainly that he mustn't speak to her any more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 XI In which Mr. Canning must go South for his Health, and Cally lies awake to think. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 XII How V. Vivian still felt the Same about the Huns, No Matter what Sam Thought; also how Kern Garland lost Something at the Works, and what made Mr. V.V. look at her That Way. . . . . . . . 146 XIII