-The new-comer--No wonder!--Not a 617-625
blacksmith--A love affair--Gretna Green--A cool
thousand--Family estates--Borough interest--Grand
education--Let us hear--Already quarrelling--Honourable
parents--Not common people
CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT
An exordium--Fine ships--High Barbary captains--Free-born 626-639
Englishmen--Monstrous figure--Swashbuckler--The grand
coaches--The footmen--A travelling expedition--Black
Jack--Nelson's cannon--Pharaoh's butler--A diligence--Two
passengers--Sharking priest--Virgilio--Lessons in
Italian--Two opinions--Holy Mary--Priestly
confederates--Methodist--Like a sepulchre--All for
themselves
CHAPTER NINETY-NINE
A cloister--Half English--New acquaintance--Mixed 640-651
liquors--Turning Papist--Purposes of charity--Foreign
religion--Melancholy--Elbowing and pushing--Outlandish
sight--The figure--I don't care for
you--Merry-andrews--One good--Religion of my
country--Fellow of spirit--A dispute--The next
morning--Proper dignity--Fetish country
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
Nothing but gloom--Sporting character--Gouty 652-655
Tory--Reformado footman--Peroration--Good-night

THE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_From water-colour drawings by_ EDMUND J. SULLIVAN

'As I read over the lives of these robbers and _Frontispiece_
pickpockets, strange doubts began to arise in my
mind about virtue and crime'
'Fool, indeed! . . . or I'll forfeit the box' _page_ 8
'Once I saw him standing in the middle of a dusty 32
road'
'A wild grimy figure of a man . . . fashioning a 96
piece of iron'
'There's night and day, brother, both sweet 186
things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet
things; there's likewise a wind on the heath.
Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to
die?'
'All safe with me; I never peach, and scorns a 224
trap; so now, dear, God bless you!'
'I am willing to encourage merit, sir; . . . I 240
have determined that you shall translate my book
of philosophy'
'The bar of the gate' 416
Mrs. Herne 512
'The blow which I struck the Tinker' 544
Isopel Berners 560
'The man in black' 600

CHAP. ONE