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Great Gulf; and it isn't quite Clear how she will ever cross back again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
XVIII
Night-Thoughts on the Hardness of Religious Fellows, compelling you to be Hard, too; Happier Things again, such as Hugo, Europe, Trousseaux, etc.; concluding with a Letter from Texas and a Little Vulgarian in a Red Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
XIX
How it is One Thing to run away from yourself, and another to escape; how Cally orders the Best Cocktails, and gazes at her Mother asleep; also of Jefferson 4127, and why Mamma left the Table in a hurry at the Cafe des Ambassadeurs . . . . . . . . . . 249
XX
In which Jack Dalhousie wears a New Dignity, and the Lame Stranger comes to the House of Heth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
XXI
That Day at the Beach, as we sit and look back at it; how Hugo journeys to shield his Love from Harm, and Small Beginnings can end with Uproars and a Proverb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
XXII
One Summer in the Old Hotel; of the World's wagging on, Kern Garland, and Prince Serge Suits; of how Kern leaves the Works for Good and has a Dream about Mr. V.V.'s Beautiful Lady; of how Mr. V.V. came to sit in the Still Watches and think again of John the Baptist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
XXIII
One Summer in Europe, which she never speaks of now; Home again, with what a Difference; Novel Questionings, as to what is a Friend, etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
XXIV
How the Best People came to the Old Hotel again; how Cally is Ornamental, maybe, but hardly a Useful Person; how she encounters Three Surprises from Three Various Men, all disagreeable but the Last. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
XXV
In which the Name of Heth is lifted beyond the Reach of Hateful Malice, and Mamma wishes that she had the Ten Thousand back again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
XXVI
Concerning Women who won't remember their Place, and a Speech to Two Hundred of them, by Mr. V.V., no less; also revealing why Hen Cooney never found V.V. in the Crowd around the Platform . . 363
XXVII
Of one of the Triumphs of Cally's Life, and the Tete-a-tete following, which vaguely depresses her; of the Little Work-Girl who brought the Note that Sunday, oddly remet at Gentlemen's Furnishings . . 378
XXVIII
A Little Visit to the Birthplace of the Family; how Cally thinks Socialism and almost faints, and Hugo's Afternoon of Romance ends Short in the Middle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
XXIX
One Hour, in which she apologizes twice for her Self, her Life and Works; and once she is beautifully forgiven, and once she never will be, this Side of the Last Trump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
XXX
How it sounded like an Epitaph, but still she would not cry; how she thinks of the Beach again, and hugs a Hateful Word to her Bosom; how Hugo starts suddenly on a sort of Wedding-Trip . . . . 427
XXXI
Second Cataclysm in the House; of the Dark Cloud obscuring the New Day, and the Violets that had faded behind a Curtain, etc.; but chiefly of a Little Talk with Mamma, which produced Moral Results, after all. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
XXXII
Time's Jests, and now the Perfect Apology, to stand a Lifetime in Brick and Stone; concluding with a Little Scene, which she will remember while she lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
XXXIII
Her Last Day, in this History; how she wakes with a Wonder in her Heart, has her Banquet laid at the Board