The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance

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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

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