Chapter 3

LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI

I. In which Our Hero's World Grows Sensibly Wider 181

II. Telling How Dickie's Soul was Somewhat Sick, and How He Met Fair Women on the Confines of a Wood 186

III. In which Richard Confirms One Judgment and Reverses Another 195

IV. Julius March Bears Testimony 203

V. Telling How Queen Mary's Crystal Ball Came to Fall on the Gallery Floor 215

VI. In which Dickie Tries to Ride Away from His Own Shadow, with Such Success as Might Have Been Anticipated 231

VII. Wherein the Reader is Courteously Invited to Improve His Acquaintance with Certain Persons of Quality 240

VIII. Richard Puts His Hand to a Plough from which There is no Turning Back 252

IX. Which Touches Incidentally on Matters of Finance 264

X. Mr. Ludovic Quayle Among the Prophets 280

XI. Containing Samples Both of Earthly and Heavenly Love 289