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CONTENTS

Esmé . . . 13
The Match-Maker . . . 23
Tobermory . . . 29
Mrs. Packletide's Tiger . . . 45
The Stampeding of Lady Bastable . . . 53
The Background . . . 60
Hermann the Irascible—A Story of the Great Weep . . . 67
The Unrest-Cure . . . 73
The Jesting of Arlington Stringham . . . 86
Sredni Vashtar . . . 93
Adrian . . . 103
The Chaplet . . . 111
The Quest . . . 119
Wratislav . . . 129
The Easter Egg . . . 135
Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse the Helped . . . 143

The Music on the Hill . . . 149
The Story of St. Vespaluus . . . 160
The Way to the Dairy . . . 176
The Peace Offering . . . 189
The Peace of Mowsle Barton . . . 199
The Talking-out of Tarrington . . . 213
The Hounds of Fate . . . 219
The Recessional . . . 233
A Matter of Sentiment . . . 242
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope . . . 250
"Ministers of Grace" . . . 266
The Remoulding of Groby Lington . . . 286
Acknowledgment . . . 301

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