kes His Seat
XLVI. A Love Gift
XLVII. Mr Cheesacre's Disappointment
XLVIII. Preparations for Lady Monk's Party
XLIX. How Lady Glencora Went to Lady Monk's Party
L. How Lady Glencora Came Back from Lady Monk's Party
LI. Bold Speculations on Murder
LII. What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall
LIII. The Last Will of the Old Squire
LIV. Showing How Alice Was Punished
LV. The Will
LVI. Another Walk on the Fells
LVII. Showing How the Wild Beast Got Himself Back from the
Mountains
LVIII. The Pallisers at Breakfast
LIX. The Duke of St Bungay in Search of a Minister
LX. Alice Vavasor's Name Gets into the Money Market
LXI. The Bills Are Made All Right
LXII. Going Abroad
LXIII. Mr John Grey in Queen Anne Street
LXIV. The Rocks and Valleys
LXV. The First Kiss
LXVI. Lady Monk's Plan
LXVII. The Last Kiss
LXVIII. From London to Baden
LXIX. From Baden to Lucerne
LXX. At Lucerne
LXXI. Showing How George Vavasor Received a Visit
LXXII. Showing How George Vavasor Paid a Visit
LXXIII. In Which Come Tidings of Great Moment to All Pallisers
LXXIV. Showing What Happened in the Churchyard
LXXV. Rouge et Noir
LXXVI. The Landlord's Bill
LXXVII. The Travellers Return Home
LXXVIII. Mr Cheesacre's Fate
LXXIX. Diamonds Are Diamonds
LXXX. The Story Is Finished Within the Halls of the Duke of
Omnium

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I

Mr Vavasor and His Daughter

Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did
not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world, I am
not prepared to say with any strength of affirmation. By blood she
was connected with big people,--distantly connected with some very
big people indeed, people who belonged to the Upper Ten Hundred if
there be any such division; but of these very big relations she had
known and seen little, and they had cared as little for her. Her
grandfather, Squire Vavasor of Vavasor Hall, in Westmoreland, was a
country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the outside,
and he therefore never came up to London, and had no ambition to have
himself numbered as one in any exclusive set. A hot-headed, ignorant,
honest old gentleman, he lived ever at Vavasor Hall, declaring to any
who would listen to him, that the country was