Front matter
Reading edition
Author of “At The Gate of Samaria” and “The Demagogue and Lady Phayre”
John Lane: The Bodley Head London and New York
1897
CONTENTS
Part I
CHAPTER I—BEYOND THE PALE
CHAPTER II—YVONNE
CHAPTER III—IN THE DEPTHS
CHAPTER IV—DEA EX MACHINA
CHAPTER V—THE COMIC MUSE
CHAPTER VI—MELPOMENE
CHAPTER VII—A FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER VIII—THE CANON’S ANGEL
CHAPTER IX—PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
CHAPTER X—COUNSELS OF PERFECTION
CHAPTER XI—THE OUTCAST COUSIN
CHAPTER XII—HISTOIRE DE REVENANT
CHAPTER XIII—Dis Aliter Visum
Part II
CHAPTER XIV—“IN A STRANGE LAND”
CHAPTER XV—KNIGHT-ERRANT
CHAPTER XVI—LA CIGALE
CHAPTER XVII—YVONNE PROPOSES
CHAPTER XVIII—DRIFTWOOD
CHAPTER XIX—FERMENT
CHAPTER XX—UPHEAVAL
CHAPTER XXI—A DEMAND IN MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXII—SEEKING SALVATION
CHAPTER XXIII—AN END AND A BEGINNING