To A. H.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER     PAGE
I   Neptune’s Grotto 11
II   The Factory 26
III   The Proposal 36
IV   Married Life 43
V   Tintacks in Brigham 55
VI   The Diorama 74
VII   True Love 83
VIII   Rogues and Vagabonds 96
IX   A Merry Christmas 110
X   The Pantomime 121
XI   The End of the Harlequinade      127
XII   Looking for Work 135
XIII   Lebanon House 144
XIV   Letizia the First 163
XV   The Tunnel 172
XVI   Blackboy Passage 182
XVII   The Two Roads 195
XVIII   Triennial 215
XIX   Nancy’s Contralto 222
XX   Southward 232
XXI   Classic Grief 240
XXII   Sorrento 248
XXIII   Cœur de Lion 267
XXIV   Decennial 274
XXV   The Common Chord 286