Mistress Anne

I. In Which Things Are Said of Diogenes and of a Lady With a Lantern 11 II. In Which a Princess Serving Finds That the Motto of Kings Is Meaningless 21 III. In Which the Crown Prince Enters Upon His Own 36 IV. In Which Three Kings Come to Crossroads 51 V. In Which Peggy Takes the Center of the Stage 62 VI. In Which a Gray Plush Pussy Cat Supplies a Theme 77 VII. In Which Geoffrey Writes of Soldiers and Their Souls 91 VIII. In Which a Green-Eyed Monster Grips Eve 111 IX. In Which Anne, Passing a Shop, Turns In 136 X. In Which a Blind Beggar and a Butterfly Go To a Ball 149 XI. In Which Brinsley Speaks of the Way to Win a Woman 160 XII. In Which Eve Usurps an Ancient Masculine Privilege 178 XIII. In Which Geoffrey Plays Cave Man 196 XIV. In Which There Is Much Said of Marriage and of Giving in Marriage 210 XV. In Which Anne Asks and Jimmie Answers 226 XVI. In Which Pan Pipes to the Stars 239 XVII. In Which Fear Walks in a Storm 256 XVIII. In Which We Hear Once More of a Sandalwood Fan 274 XIX. In Which Christmas Comes to Crossroads 284 XX. In Which a Dresden-China Shepherdess and a Country Mouse Meet on Common Ground 298 XXI. In Which St. Michael Hears a Call 314 XXII. In Which Anne Weighs the People of Two Worlds 333 XXIII. In Which Richard Rides Alone 347 XXIV. In Which St. Michael Finds Love in a Garden 361 Mistress Anne In Which Things Are Said of Diogenes and of a Lady With a Lantern. The second day of the New Year came on Saturday. The holiday atmosphere had thus been extended over the week-end. The Christmas wreaths still hung in the windows, and there had been an added day of feasting. Holidays always brought people from town who ate with sharp appetites. It was mostly men who came, men who fished and men who hunted. In the long low house by the river one found good meals and good beds, warm fires in winter and a wide porch in summer. There were few luxuries, but it pleased certain wise Old Gentlemen to take their sport simply, and to take pride in the simplicity. They considered the magnificence of modern camps and clubs vulgar, and…