ding of women, in honour of Noorna, concerning which the Sage has
said:

Were men once clad in them, we should create
A race not following, but commanding, fate:

--of all these records, and of the reign of Baba Mustapha in Oolb, surely
the chronicles give them in fulness; and they that have searched say of
them, there is matter therein for the amusement of generations.

ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS

A woman's at the core of every plot man plotteth
Arm'd with Fear the Foe finds passage to the vital part
Delay in thine undertaking Is disaster of thy own making
Every failure is a step advanced
Failures oft are but advising friends
Fear nought so much as Fear itself
How little a thing serves Fortune's turn
If thou wouldst fix remembrance--thwack!
Lest thou commence to lie--be dumb!
Like an ill-reared fruit, first at the core it rotteth
More culpable the sparer than the spared
No runner can outstrip his fate
Nought credit but what outward orbs reveal
Persist, if thou wouldst truly reach thine ends
Ripe with oft telling and old is the tale
The curse of sorrow is comparison!
The king without his crown hath a forehead like the clown
The overwise themselves hoodwink
'Tis the first step that makes a path
Too often hangs the house on one loose stone
Vanity maketh the strongest most weak
When to loquacious fools with patience rare I listen
Where fools are the fathers of every miracle
Who in a labyrinth wandereth without clue

THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL

By George Meredith

1905

CONTENTS
I. THE INMATES OF RAYNHAM ABBEY
II. FATES SELECTED THE FOURTEENTH BIRTHDAY TO TRY THE STRENGTH
III. THE MAGIAN CONFLICT
IV. ARSON
V. ADRIAN PLIES HIS HOOK
VI. JUVENILE STRATAGEMS
VII. DAPHNE'S BOWER
VIII. THE BITTER CUP
IX. A FINE DISTINCTION
X. RICHARD PASSES THROUGH HIS PRELIMINARY ORDEAL
XI. THE LAST ACT OF THE BAKEWELL COMEDY IS CLOSED IN A LETTER
XII. THE BLOSSOMING SEASON
XIII. THE MAGNETIC AGE
XIV. AN ATTRACTION
XV. FERDINAND AND MIRANDA
XVI. UNMASKING OF MASTER RIPTON THOMPSON
XVII. GOOD WINE AND GOOD BLOOD
XVIII. THE SYSTEM ENCOUNTERS THE WILD OATS SPECIAL PLEA
XIX. A DIVERSION PLAYED ON A PENNY WHISTLE
XX. CELEBRATES THE TIME-HONOURED TREATMENT OF A DRA