Chapter I: Introduction: ix

I. A LODGE IN THE WILDERNESS 1

II. "OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY" 21

III. AT THE SIGN OF THE GEORGE 50

IV. OF A BROKEN SABBATH AND BROKEN
HEADS 72

V. FROM BROADWAY TO BUNKER HILL 92

VI. THE WIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE 118

VII. THE MARCH THROUGH MAINE 150

VIII. WITHIN THE WALLS OF QUEBEC 175

IX. THE INCIDENTS OF A SNOWY NIGHT 201

X. "BY FLOOD AND FIELD" 227

XI. THREE WHIMSICAL GENTLEMEN AND A
BEAUTIFUL LADY 257

XII. THE DEVIL TO PAY AT THE PELICAN INN 288

XIII. "UP AND DOWN IN LONDON TOWN" 323

XIV. "FAIR STOOD THE WIND FOR FRANCE" 352

XV. AN ELOPEMENT FROM A DILIGENCE 376

XVI. PASTORAL AND TRAGEDY 401

XVII. "STONE WALLS DO NOT A PRISON
MAKE" 426

XVIII. DICK GIVES A SPECIMEN OF AMERICAN
SHOOTING 452

XIX. THE FAVOR OF A PRINCE 474

XX. THE HONOR OF A LADY-IN-WAITING 499

XXI. "THE ROAD TO PARIS" 524

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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"A WILD THRUST BETRAYED THAT HIS EYE WAS NO
LONGER TRUE" _Frontispiece_

"THE NEWCOMER WAS APPARENTLY ABOUT FORTY
YEARS OLD" 36

"IT WAS THE MAN SENT BY ARNOLD" 223

"BEARING THE SWOONING FORM OF AMABEL" 294

"'OH, YOU HAVE A VISITOR! MON DIEU, SILVIUS!'" 431

"FREDERICK II. RECOILED A STEP OR TWO" 518