Chapter I: Prologue: 1

CHAP.

I. WHICH INTRODUCES THE DOG WITH A BAD NAME 6

II. WHICH DESCRIBES A FORTUITOUS BUT FATEFUL MEETING 20

III. TELLETH OF MRS. ROSE, THE GUILEFUL INNOCENT 29

IV. SHEWETH THE WICKED DERING IN A NEW RÔLE 34

V. THE ALLURE OF SIMPLICITY: MOONLIGHT AND AN ELOPEMENT 39

VI. OF SOULS, SOLITUDE AND A DUSTY ROAD 46

VII. WHICH INTRODUCES MY LORD SAYLE AND THE CLASH OF STEEL 54

VIII. OF A POST-CHAISE, INIQUITY AND A GRANDMOTHER 65

IX. DESCRIBES THE ADVENTURES OF THE _TRUE BELIEVER_ 71

X. FURTHER CONCERNING THE SAME 79

XI. OF AN ALTRUISTIC SCOT 85

XII. DESCRIBETH THE DUPLICITY OF INNOCENCE 94

XIII. CONCERNING THE ADVENT OF JOHN DERWENT 99

XIV. HOW THE MAN OF SENTIMENT SENTIMENTALISED IN A DITCH 109

XV. WHICH INTRODUCES A FRIEZE COAT AND ITS WEARER, ONE
GEORGE POTTER 119

XVI. DESCRIBES A SCANDALOUS ITEM OF FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE
AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF 129

XVII. HOW SIR JOHN DERING CAME BACK TO MAYFAIR 140

XVIII. HOW SIR JOHN DERING WENT A-WOOING 143

XIX. TELLS HOW SIR JOHN WENT “BEAR-BAITING” 149

XX. HOW SIR JOHN PLEDGED HIS WORD: WITH SOME DESCRIPTION OF
THE PROPERTIES OF SNUFF 156

XXI. OF GEORGE POTTER, HIS WHISTLE 163

XXII. MY LADY HERMINIA BARRASDAILE WEAVES WEBS FOR AN UNWARY HE 176

XXIII. HOW GEORGE POTTER CIRCUMVENTED THE PREVENTIVES 181

XXIV. OF MR. BUNKLE AND THE ROOM WITH FIVE DOORS 193

XXV. TELLETH HOW SIR JOHN BEHELD THE GHOST 200

XXVI. CONCERNS ITSELF MAINLY WITH THE “MORNING AFTER” 206

XXVII. TELLETH HOW MR. DERWENT BEGAN HIS WOOING 212

XXVIII. TELLETH HOW MY LADY ADOPTED A FAIRY GODMOTHER 223

XXIX. GIVETH SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF A TEA-DRINKING 228

XXX. IN WHICH SIR JOHN RECEIVES A WARNING 238

XXXI. BEING A CHAPTER OF NO GREAT CONSEQUENCE 243

XXXII. TELLETH HOW SIR JOHN DERWENT WENT A-WOOING 247

XXXIII. WHICH, AMONG OTHER SMALL MATTERS, TELLETH OF A SNUFF-BOX 251

XXXIV. CONCERNS ITSELF WITH ONE OF THE MANY MYSTERIES OF THE
‘MARKET CROSS INN’ 258

XXXV. BEING THE SHORTEST IN THIS BOOK 271

XXXVI. WHICH CONTAINS FURTHER MENTION OF A CERTAIN SNUFF-BOX 273

XXXVII. WHICH GIVETH SOME DESCRIPTION OF A MURDERER’S HAT 281

XXXVIII. OF THE TERROR BY NIGHT 289

XXXIX. HOW THEY WARNED CAPTAIN SHARKIE NYE 299

XL. DESCRIBES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, HOW MY LADY TRAMPLED
TRIUMPHANTLY AT LAST 308

XLI. TELLETH OF THE DUEL ON DERING TYE 318

XLII. MR. DUMBRELL MEDIATES 325

XLIII. IN WHICH SIR JOHN DEVOTES HIMSELF TO THE MUSE 331

XLIV. IN WHICH THE GHOST FLITS TO GOOD PURPOSE 337

XLV. WHICH, AS THE READER OBSERVES, BEGINS AND ENDS WITH
MY LORD SAYLE 344

XLVI. TELLS HOW SIR JOHN DERING FLED THE DOWN-COUNTRY 352

XLVII. TELLETH HOW MY LADY HERMINIA BARRASDAILE WENT A-WOOING 360

XLVIII. WHICH IS, HAPPILY, THE LAST 366

SIR JOHN DERING