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PARISIAN PASTIMES

I. THE ADVANTAGES OF A POLITE EDUCATION 93

II. THE JOYS OF PHILANTHROPY 104

III. THE SIMPLE LIFE IN PARIS 117

IV. A VISIT TO VERSAILLES 129

V. PARIS AT NIGHT 143

THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS 159

MAKING A MAGAZINE 169

HOMER AND HUMBUG 185

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE PROLOGUE _Frontispiece_

TO FACE PAGE

THE CURTAIN RISES 12

THEIR EXPRESSION IS STAMPED WITH DEEP THOUGHT 28

HE KISSES HER ON THE BARE SHOULDER 30

HE TAKES HER IN HIS ARMS 50

"IS IT ME?" 58

I DID GO--I KEPT THE APPOINTMENT 66

HE SHOWED ME A CHURCH THAT I COULD HAVE BOUGHT FOR A
HUNDRED THOUSAND 72

I SHALL NOT TRY TO BE QUITE SO EXTRAORDINARILY CLEVER 84

WHEN HE REACHED MY FACE HE LOOKED SEARCHINGLY AT IT 88

THE TAILOR SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS 98

SOMETHING IN THE QUIET DIGNITY OF THE YOUNG MAN HELD ME 114

THE PARISIAN DOG 120

PERSONALLY I PLEAD GUILTY TO SOMETHING OF THE SAME SPIRIT 142

THE LADY'S FACE IS AGLOW WITH MORAL ENTHUSIASM 146

MEANWHILE HE HAD BECOME A QUAINT-LOOKING ELDERLY MAN 166

WITH ALL THE LOW CUNNING OF AN AUTHOR STAMPED ON HIS FEATURES 174

_BEHIND THE BEYOND_

_A Modern Problem Play_

_Act I.--Behind the Beyond_

THE curtain rises, disclosing the ushers of the theater still moving up
and down the aisles. Cries of "Program!" "Program!" are heard. There is
a buzz of brilliant conversation, illuminated with flashes of opera
glasses and the rattle of expensive jewelry.

Then suddenly, almost unexpectedly, in fact just as if done, so to
speak, by machinery, the lights all over the theater, except on the
stage, are extinguished. Absolute silence falls. Here and there is heard
the crackle of a s