XXXIX Amongst the Painters
XL Returns from Rome to Pall Mall
XLI An Old Story
XLII Injured Innocence
XLIII Returns to some Old Friends
XLIV In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an amiable light
XLV A Stag of Ten
XLVI The Hotel de Florac
XLVII Contains two or three Acts of a little Comedy
XLVIII In which Benedick is a Married Man
XLIX Contains at least Six more Courses and Two Desserts
L Clive in New Quarters
LI An Old Friend
LII Family Secrets
LIII In which Kinsmen fall out
LIV Has a Tragical Ending
LV Barnes's Skeleton Closet
LVI Rosa quo locorum sera moratur
LVII Rosebury and Newcome
LVIII "One more Unfortunate"
LIX In which Achilles loses Briseis
LX In which we write to the Colonel
LXI In which we are introduced to a new Newcome
LXII Mr. and Mrs. Clive Newcome
LXIII Mrs. Clive at Home
LXIV Absit Omen
LXV In which Mrs. Clive comes into her Fortune
LXVI In which the Colonel and the Newcome Athenaeum are both Lectured
LXVII Newcome and Liberty
LXVIII A Letter and a Reconciliation
LXIX The Election
LXX Chiltern Hundreds
LXXI In which Mrs. Clive Newcome's Carriage is ordered
LXXII Belisarius
LXXIII In which Belisarius returns from Exile
LXXIV In which Clive begins the World
LXXV Founder's Day at Grey Friars
LXXVI Christmas at Rosebury
LXXVII The Shortest and Happiest in the whole History
LXXVIII In which the Author goes on a Pleasant Errand
LXII In which Old Friends come together
LXXX In which the Colonel says "Adsum" when his Name is called

THE NEWCOMES

CHAPTER I. The Overture--After which the Curtain rises upon a Drinking Chorus

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy-window, sate
perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath
him. The frog's hideous large eyes were goggling out of his head in
a manner which appeared quite ridiculous to the old blackamoor, who
watched the splay-footed slimy wretch with that peculiar grim humour
belonging to crows. Not far from the frog a fat ox was browsing;
whilst a few lambs frisked about the meadow, or nibbled the grass and
buttercups there.

Who should come in to the farther end of the field but a wolf? He was
so cunningly dressed up in sheep's clothing, that t