Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADY
A Romance
By
Lucas Malet
NEW YORK Dodd, Mead & Company 1901
Copyright, 1901 BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
THE CAXTON PRESS NEW YORK.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE CLOWN
CHAP. PAGE
I. Acquainting the Reader with a Fair Domain and the Maker Thereof 1
II. Giving the Very Earliest Information Obtainable of the Hero of this Book 7
III. Touching Matters Clerical and Controversial 19
IV. Raising Problems which it is the Purpose of this History to Resolve 25
V. In which Julius March Beholds the Vision of the New Life 34
VI. Accident or Destiny, According to Your Humour 44
VII. Mrs. William Ormiston Sacrifices a Wine-glass to Fate 57
VIII. Enter a Child of Promise 69
IX. In which Katherine Calmady Looks on Her Son 76
X. The Birds of the Air Take Their Breakfast 84
BOOK II
THE BREAKING OF DREAMS
I. Recording some Aspects of a Small Pilgrim's Progress 93
II. In which Our Hero Improves His Acquaintance with Many Things--Himself Included 104
III. Concerning that which, Thank God, Happens Almost Every Day 117
IV. Which Smells very Vilely of the Stable 128
V. In which Dickie is Introduced to a Little Dancer with Blush-roses in Her Hat 140
VI. Dealing with a Physician of the Body and a Physician of the Soul 149
VII. An Attempt to Make the Best of It 159
VIII. Telling, Incidentally, of a Broken-down Postboy and a Country Fair 169