A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales

A CHANGED MAN

THE WAITING SUPPER

ALICIA'S DIARY

ALICIA'S DIARYI.--SHE MISSES HER SISTER

II.--NEWS INTERESTING AND SERIOUS

III.--HER GLOOM LIGHTENS A LITTLE

IV.--SHE BEHOLDS THE ATTRACTIVE STRANGER

V.--HER SITUATION IS A TRYING ONE

VI.--HER INGENUITY INSTIGATES HER

VII.--A SURPRISE AWAITS HER

VIII.--SHE TRAVELS IN PURSUIT

IX.--SHE WITNESSES THE END

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X.--SHE ADDS A NOTE LONG AFTER

THE GRAVE BY THE HANDPOST

ENTER A DRAGOON

A TRYST AT AN ANCIENT EARTHWORK

WHAT THE SHEPHERD SAW: A TALE OF FOUR MOONLIGHT NIGHTS

A COMMITTEE-MAN OF 'THE TERROR'

MASTER JOHN HORSELEIGH, KNIGHT

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THE DUKE'S REAPPEARANCE--A FAMILY TRADITION

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A MERE INTERLUDE

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10. X.--SHE ADDS A NOTE LONG AFTER

Five-years later.--I have lighted upon this old diary, which it has interested me to look over, containing, as it does, records of the time when life shone more warmly in my eye than it does now. I am impelled to add one sentence to round off its record of the past. About a year ago my sister Caroline, after

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a persistent wooing, accepted the hand and heart of Theophilus Higham, once the blushing young Scripture reader who assisted at the substitute for a marriage I planned, and now the fully- ordained curate of the next parish. His penitence for the part he played ended in love. We have all now made atonement for our sins against her: may she be deceived no more.

1887.

	X.--SHE ADDS A NOTE LONG AFTER A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper and Other Tales

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10. X.--SHE ADDS A NOTE LONG AFTER