of Friendship.--Two Characters in mutual Ignorance of each other, and the Reader no wiser than either of them
CHAPTER V.
Rural Hospitality.--An extraordinary Guest.--A Fine Gentleman is not necessarily a Fool
CHAPTER VI.
A Dialogue, which might be dull if it were longer
CHAPTER VII.
A Change of Prospects.--A new Insight into the Character of the Hero. --A Conference between two Brothers
CHAPTER VIII.
First Love
CHAPTER IX.
A Discovery and a Departure
CHAPTER X.
A very short Chapter,--containing a Valet
CHAPTER XI.
The Hero acquits himself honourably as a Coxcomb.--A Fine Lady of the Eighteenth Century, and a fashionable Dialogue; the Substance of fashionable Dialogue being in all Centuries the same
CHAPTER XII.
The Abbe's Return.--A Sword, and a Soliloquy
CHAPTER XIII.
A mysterious Letter.-A Duel.--The Departure of one of the Family
CHAPTER XIV.
Being a
Chapter of
Trifles
CHAPTER XV.
The Mother and Son.--Virtue should be the Sovereign of the Feelings, not their Destroyer
Book II.
CHAPTER I.
The Hero in London.--Pleasure is often the shortest, as it is the earliest road to Wisdom, and we may say of the World what Zeal-of- the-Land-Busy says of the Pig-Booth, "We escape so much of the other Vanities by our early Entering"
CHAPTER II.
Gay Scenes and Conversations.--The New Exchange and the Puppet- Show.--The Actor, the Sexton, and the Beauty
CHAPTER III.
More Lions
CHAPTER IV.
An intellectual Adventure
CHAPTER V.
The Beau in his Den, and a Philosopher discovered
CHAPTER VI.
A universal Genius.--Pericles turned Barber.--Names of Beauties in 171-.--The Toasts of the Kit-Cat Club
CHAPTER VII.
A Dialogue of Sentiment succeeded by the Sketch of a Character, in whose Eyes Sentiment was to Wise Men what Religion is to Fools; namely, a Subject of Ridicule
CHAPTER VIII.
Lightly won, lightly lost.--A Dialogue of equal Instruction and Amusement.--A Visit to Sir Godfrey Kneller
CHAPTER IX.
A Development of Character, and a long Letter; a Chapter, on the whole, more important than it seems
CHAPTER X.
Being a short Chapter, containing a most important Event
CHAPTER XI.
Containing more than any other
Chapter in
the Second Book of this History
Book III.
CHAPTER I.
Wherein the History makes great Progress and is marked by one important Event in Human Life
CHAPTER II.
Love; Parting; a Death-Bed.--After all human Nature is a beautiful Fabric; and even its Imperfections are not odious to him who has studied the Science of its Architecture, and formed a reverent Estimate of its Creator
CHAPTER III.
A great Change of Prospects
CHAPTER IV.
An Episode.--The Son of the Greatest Man who (one only excepted) /ever rose to a Throne/, but by no means of the Greatest Man (save one) /who ever existed/
CHAPTER V.
In which the Hero shows Decision on more Points than one.--More of Isora's Character is developed
CHAPTER VI.
An Unexpected Meeting.--Conjecture and Anticipation
CHAPTER VII.
The Events of a Single Night.--Moments make the Hues in which Years are coloured
Book IV.
CHAPTER I.
A Re-entrance into Life through the Ebon Gate, Affliction
CHAPTER II.
Ambitious Projects
CHAPTER III.
The real Actors Spectators to the false ones
CHAPTER IV.
Paris.--A Female Politician, and an Ecclesiastical One.--Sundry other Matters
CHAPTER V.
A Meeting of Wits.--Conversation gone out to Supper in her Dress of Velvet and Jewels
CHAPTER VI.
A Court, Courtiers, and a King
CHAPTER VII.
Reflections.--A Soiree.--The Appearance of one important in the History.--A Conversation with Madame de Balzac highly satisfactory and cheering.--A Rencontre with a curious old Soldier.-- The Extinction of a once great Luminary
CHAPTER VIII.
In which there is Reason to fear that Princes are not invariably free from Human Peccadilloes
CHAPTER IX.
A Prince, an Audience, and a Secret Embassy
CHAPTER X.
Royal Exertions for the Good of the People
CHAPTER XI.
An Interview
Book V.
CHAPTER I.
A Portrait
CHAPTER II.
The Entrance into Petersburg.--A Rencontre with an inquisitive and mysterious Stranger.--Nothing like Travel
CHAPTER III.
The Czar.--The Czarina.--A Feast at a Russian Nobleman's
CHAPTER IV.
Conversations with the Czar.--If Cromwell was the greatest Man (Caesar excepted) who ever /rose/ to the Supreme Power, Peter was the greatest Man ever /born/ to it
CHAPTER V.
Return to Paris.--Interview with Bolingbroke.--A gallant Adventure. --Affair with Dubois.--Public Life is a Drama, in which private Vices generally play the Part of the Scene-shifters
CHAPTER VI.
A long Interval of Years.--A Change of Mind and its Causes
Book VI.
CHAPTER I.
The Retreat
CHAPTER II.
The Victory
CHAPTER III.
The Hermit of the Well
CHAPTER IV.
The Solution of many Mysteries.--A dark View of the Life and Nature of Man
CHAPTER V.
In which the History makes a great Stride towards the final Catastrophe. --The Return to England, and the Visit to a Devotee
CHAPTER VI.
The Retreat of a celebrated Man, and a Visit to a great Poet
CHAPTER VII.
The Plot approaches its /Denouement/
CHAPTER VIII.
The Catastrophe
CONCLUSION
DEVEREUX.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I.
OF THE HERO'S BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.--NOTHING CAN DIFFER MORE FROM THE END OF THINGS THAN THEIR BEGINNING.
MY grandfather, Sir Arthur Devereux (peace be with his ashes!) was a noble old knight and cavalier, possessed of a property sufficiently large to have maintained in full dignity half a dozen peers,--such as peers have been since the days of the first James. Nevertheless, my grandfather loved the equestrian order better than the patrician, rejected all offers of advancement, and left his posterity no titles but those to his estate.
Sir Arthur had two children by wedlock,--both sons; at his death, my father, the younger, bade adieu to the old hall and
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