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TO THE MEMORY OF THAT GOOD FRIEND AND COMRADE OF MY YOUTH MY FATHER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE SCEPTER WHICH WAS A STICK CHAPTER II. THE COUP D'ETAT OF COUSIN JOSEF CHAPTER III. AN EPISODE TEN YEARS AFTER CHAPTER IV. AN ADVENTURE WITH ROYALTY CHAPTER V. BEHIND THE PUPPET BOOTH CHAPTER VI. MADEMOISELLE OF THE VEIL CHAPTER VII. SOME DIALOGUE, A SPRAINED ANKLE, AND SOME SOLDIERS CHAPTER VIII. THE RED CHATEAU CHAPTER IX. NOTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN A HOUSE PARTY CHAPTER X. BEING OF LONG RIDES, MAIDS, KISSES AND MESSAGES CHAPTER XI. THE DENOUEMENT CHAPTER XII. WHOM THE GODS DESTROY AND A FEW OTHERS CHAPTER XIII. BEING OF COMPLICATIONS NOT RECKONED ON CHAPTER XIV. QUI M'AIME, AIME MON CHIEN CHAPTER XV. IN WHICH FORTUNE BECOMES CARELESS AND PRODIGAL CHAPTER XVI. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ARCHBISHOP'S PALACE AND AFTER CHAPTER XVII. SOME PASSAGES AT ARMS CHAPTER XVIII. A MINOR CHORD AND A CHANGE OF MOVEMENT CHAPTER XIX. A CHANCE RIDE IN THE NIGHT CHAPTER XX. THE LAST STAND OF A BAD SERVANT CHAPTER XXI. A COURT FETE AT THE RED CHATEAU CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH MAURICE RECURS TO OFFENBACH CHAPTER XXIII. A GAME OF POKER AND THE STAKES CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRISONER OF THE RED CHATEAU CHAPTER XXV. THE FORTUNES OF WAR CHAPTER XXVI. A PAGE FROM TASSO CHAPTER XXVII. WORMWOOD AND LEES CHAPTER XXVIII. INTO THE HANDS OF AUSTRIA CHAPTER XXIX. INTO STILL WATERS AND SILENCE
Ah Love! Could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Re-mold it nearer to the Heart's desire! —Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam