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THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIME
BY
WAYLAND WELLS WILLIAMS
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY J. HENRY
"And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges."—Twelfth Night.
NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1916, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages.
CONTENTS
PART I
CHAPTER PAGE
I Unwritten Papers 1
II Aunts 9
III Not Colonial; Georgian 19
IV Puppy Dogs, and a Psychological Fact 28
V Babes in the Wood 38
VI Arcadia and Yankeedom 55
VII Omne Ignotum 69
VIII Livy and Victor Hugo 77
IX A Long Cheer for Wimbourne 88
X Rumblings 101
XI Aunt Selina's Beaux Yeux 112
XII An Act of God 121
XIII Sardou 133
XIV Un-Anglo-Saxon 141
XV Chiefly Cardiac 148
XVI The Saddest Tale 160
PART II
I Can Love Be Controlled by Advice? 171
II Congreve 184
III Not Triassic, Certainly, but Nearly as Old 200
IV Wild Horses and Champagne 213
V A Schöne Seele on Pisgah 224
VI A Long Chapter. But Then, Love Is Long 233
VII A Very Short Chapter, in One Sense 252
VIII One Thing and Another 268
IX Labyrinths 280
X Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lammle 299
XI Hesitancies and Tears 312
XII A Rod of Iron 326
XIII Red Flame 343
XIV A Potter's Vessel 362
XV The Tide Turns 368
XVI Reinstatement of a Schöne Seele 376