| Chapter | Page | |
|---|---|---|
| Prologue--Hugh Seymour | 11 | |
| I. | Henry Fitzgeorge Strether | 43 |
| II. | Ernest Henry | 65 |
| III. | Angelina | 94 |
| IV. | Bim Rochester | 121 |
| V. | Nancy Ross | 146 |
| VI. | 'Enery | 172 |
| VII. | Barbara Flint | 198 |
| VIII. | Sarah Trefusis | 226 |
| IX. | Young John Scarlet | 256 |
| Epilogue | 274 |
When Hugh Seymour was nine years of age he was sent from Ceylon, wherehis parents lived, to be educated in England. His relations having, forthe most part, settled in foreign countries, he spent his holidays as avery minute and pale-faced "paying guest" in various houses where otherchildren were of more importance than he, or where children as a racewere of no importance at all. It was in this way that he became duringcertain months of 1889 and 1890 and '91 a resident in the family of theRev. William Lasher, Vicar of Clinton St. Mary, that large ramblingvillage on the edge of Roche St. Mary Moor in South Glebeshire.
He spent there the two Christmases of 1890 and 1891 (when he was tenand eleven years of age), and it i