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Contents

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Godmother 13
Partial Comfort 14
The Red Dress 15
Victoria 16
The Counsellor 17
Parable for a Certain Virgin 18
Bric-à-brac 20
Interior 21
Reuben’s Children 22
For R.C.B. 23
There Was One 24
On Cheating the Fiddler 26
Incurable 27
Fable 28
The Second Oldest Story 29
A Pig’s Eye View of Literature
The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron 30
Oscar Wilde 30
Harriet Beecher Stowe 30
D. G. Rossetti 31
Thomas Carlyle 31
Charles Dickens 31
Alexandre Dumas and His Son 31
Alfred Lord Tennyson 31
George Gissing 32
Walter Savage Landor 32
George Sand 32
Mortal Enemy 33
Penelope 34
Bohemia 35
The Searched Soul 36
The Trusting Heart 37
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning 38

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