VOLUME I.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME, 1

II.--LIFE AT A WATERING PLACE, 9

III.--IN WHICH THE READER WILL ENJOY HEARING THE PRAISES LAVISHED BY SPANIARDS ON THEIR COUNTRY AND COUNTRY-MEN, 15

IV.--MORE CONVERSATION, GIVING US SOME IDEA OF THE SPANISH CHARACTER, 24

V.--ILLUSTRATING ANOTHER TRAIT OF SPANISH CHARACTER, 31

VI.--PEPA, 37

VII.--TWO MEN AND THEIR SCHEMES IN LIFE, 45

VIII.--MARÍA EGYPTIACA, 57

IX.--THE MARQUESA TELLERÍA, 69

X.--THE MARQUIS, 79

XI.--LEOPOLDO, 88

XII.--GUSTAVO, 94

XIII.--THE LAST ILLUSION, 103

XIV.--HUSBAND AND WIFE, 111

XV.--A MODUS VIVENDI, 127

XVI.--IN THE DOG-DAYS, 133

XVII.--DESERTERS, 142

XVIII.--THE ASCETIC, 149

XIX.--THE MARQUESA GOES TO A CONCERT, 159

XX.--THE OLD, OLD DRAMA, 166

XXI.--A STRUGGLE WITH THE ANGEL, 179

XXII.--CONQUERED BY THE ANGEL, 185

XXIII.--WEATHER PERMITTING, 188

XXIV.--REMINISCENCES--ANXIETIES, 200

XXV.--MARÍA EGYPTIACA DRESSES IN GREY AND DOES NOT WASH HER HANDS, 211

XXVI.--THE DEVOURING OGRE--CROUP, 222

XXVII.--THE MOTHER, 238

XXVIII.--THE MARQUIS DE FÚCAR ENJOYS THE SPECIAL FAVOUR OF HEAVEN, 242

XXIX.--ERUNT DUO IN CARNE UNA, 253

XXX.--AN IRRUPTION OF THE BARBARIANS; ALARIC, ATTILA, AND OMAR, 263

XXXI.--THE CRISIS, 275

XXXII.--REASON _versus_ PASSION, 293

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