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The Quest Of The Golden Girl

  
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
  
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BOOK I
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CHAPTER I: AN OLD HOUSE AND ITS BACHELOR
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CHAPTER II: IN WHICH I DECIDE TO GO ON PILGRIMAGE
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CHAPTER III: AN INDICTMENT OF SPRING
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CHAPTER IV: IN WHICH I EAT AND DREAM
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CHAPTER V: CONCERNING THE PERFECT WOMAN, AND THEREFORE CONCERNING ALL FEMININE READERS
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CHAPTER VI: IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ANTICIPATES DISCONTENT ON THE PART OF HIS READER
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CHAPTER VII: PRANDIAL
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII: STILL PRANDIAL
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CHAPTER IX: THE LEGEND OF HEBE, OR THE HEAVENLY HOUSEMAID
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CHAPTER X: AGAIN ON FOOT — THE GIRLS THAT NEVER CAN BE MINE
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CHAPTER XI: AN OLD MAN OF THE HILLS, AND THE SCHOOLMASTER'S STORY
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CHAPTER XII: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GIPSIES
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CHAPTER XIII: A STRANGE WEDDING
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV: THE MYSTERIOUS PETTICOAT
 15. 
CHAPTER XV: STILL OCCUPIED WITH THE PETTICOAT
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CHAPTER XVI: CLEARS UP MY MYSTERIOUS BEHAVIOR OF THE LAST CHAPTER
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CHAPTER XVII: THE NAME UPON THE PETTICOAT
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CHAPTER XVIII: IN WHICH THE NAME OF A GREAT POET IS CRIED OUT IN A SOLITARY PLACE
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CHAPTER XIX: WHY THE STRANGER WOULD NOT LOSE HIS SHELLEY FOR THE WORLD
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BOOK II
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CHAPTER I: IN WHICH I DECIDE TO BE YOUNG AGAIN
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CHAPTER II: AT THE SIGN OF THE SINGING STREAM
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CHAPTER III: IN WHICH I SAVE A USEFUL LIFE
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CHAPTER IV: 'TIS OF NICOLETE AND HER BOWER IN THE WILDWOOD
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CHAPTER V: 'TIS OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
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CHAPTER VI: A FAIRY TALE AND ITS FAIRY TAILORS
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CHAPTER VII: FROM THE MORNING STAR TO THE MOON
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CHAPTER VIII: THE KIND OF THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE MOON
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CHAPTER IX: WRITTEN BY MOONLIGHT
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CHAPTER X: HOW ONE MAKES LOVE AT THIRTY
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CHAPTER XI: HOW ONE PLAYS THE HERO AT THIRTY
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CHAPTER XII: IN WHICH I REVIEW MY ACTIONS AND RENEW MY RESOLUTIONS
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BOOK III
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CHAPTER I: IN WHICH I RETURN TO MY RIGHT AGE AND ENCOUNTER A COMMON OBJECT OF THE COUNTRY
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CHAPTER II: IN WHICH I HEAL A BICYCLE AND COME TO THE WHEEL OF PLEASURE
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CHAPTER III: TWO TOWN MICE AT A COUNTRY INN.
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CHAPTER IV: MARRIAGE A LA MODE
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CHAPTER V: CONCERNING THE HAVEN OF YELLOWSANDS
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CHAPTER VI: THE MOORLAND OF THE APOCALYPSE
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CHAPTER VII: "COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS!''
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CHAPTER VIII: THE TWELVE GOLDEN-HAIRED BAR-MAIDS.
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CHAPTER IX: SYLVIA JOY
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CHAPTER X: IN WHICH ONCE MORE I BECOME OCCUPIED IN MY OWN AFFAIRS
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CHAPTER XI: "THE HOUR FOR WHICH THE YEARS DID SIGH''
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CHAPTER XII: AT THE CAFÉ DE LA PAIX
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CHAPTER XIII: THE INNOCENCE OF PARIS
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CHAPTER XIV: END OF BOOK THREE
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BOOK IV: THE POSTSCRIPT TO A PILGRIMAGE
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CHAPTER I: SIX YEARS AFTER
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CHAPTER II: GRACE O' GOD
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CHAPTER III: THE GOLDEN GIRL

  
A LIST OF BOOKS IN BELLES LETTRES JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD 140 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK 1897
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6. CHAPTER VI: IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ANTICIPATES DISCONTENT ON THE PART OF HIS READER

"BUT come,'' I imagine some reader complaining, "is+n't it high time for something to happen?'' No doubt it is, but what am I to do? I am no less discontented. Is it not even more to my interest than to the reader's for something to happen? Here have I been tramping along since breakfast-time, and now it is late in the afternoon, but never a feather of her dove's wings, never a flutter of her angel's robes have I seen. It is disheartening, for one naturally expects to find anything we seek a few minutes after starting out to seek it, and I confess that I expected to find my golden mistress within a very few hours of leaving home. However, had that been the case, there would

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have been no story, as the novelists say, and I trust, as he goes on, the reader may feel with me that that would have been a pity. Besides, with that prevision given to an author, I am strongly of opinion that something will happen before long. And if the worst comes to the worst, there is always that story of my First Love wherewith to fill the time. Meanwhile I am approaching a decorative old Surrey town, little more than a cluster of ripe old inns, to one of which I have much pleasure in inviting the reader to dinner.

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