Chapter I: Front Matter

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A TRAVELER AT FORTY

A TRAVELER AT FORTY

by

THEODORE DREISER

Author of “Sister Carrie,” “Jennie Gerhardt,” “The Financier,” etc., etc.

Illustrated by W. Glackens

New York The Century Co. 1913

Copyright, 1913, by the Century Co.

Published, November, 1913

TO
“BARFLEUR”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I BARFLEUR TAKES ME IN HAND 3
II MISS X. 16
III AT FISHGUARD 24
IV SERVANTS AND POLITENESS 32
V THE RIDE TO LONDON 37
VI THE BARFLEUR FAMILY 47
VII A GLIMPSE OF LONDON 57
VIII A LONDON DRAWING-ROOM 66
IX CALLS 72
X SOME MORE ABOUT LONDON 77
XI THE THAMES 89
XII MARLOWE 95
XIII LILLY: A GIRL OF THE STREETS 113
XIV LONDON; THE EAST END 128
XV ENTER SIR SCORP 136
XVI A CHRISTMAS CALL 148
XVII SMOKY ENGLAND 171
XVIII SMOKY ENGLAND (_continued_) 180
XIX CANTERBURY 188
XX EN ROUTE TO PARIS 198
XXI PARIS! 211
XXII A MORNING IN PARIS 225
XXIII THREE GUIDES 238
XXIV “THE POISON FLOWER” 247
XXV MONTE CARLO 255
XXVI THE LURE OF GOLD! 264
XXVII WE GO TO EZE 275
XXVIII NICE 288
XXIX A FIRST GLIMPSE OF ITALY 295
XXX A STOP AT PISA 306
XXXI FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ROME 315
XXXII MRS. Q. AND THE BORGIA FAMILY 327
XXXIII THE ART OF SIGNOR TANNI 337
XXXIV AN AUDIENCE AT THE VATICAN 345
XXXV THE CITY OF ST. FRANCIS 354
XXXVI PERUGIA 365
XXXVII THE MAKERS OF FLORENCE 371
XXXVIII A NIGHT RAMBLE IN FLORENCE 380
XXXIX FLORENCE OF TO-DAY 387
XL MARIA BASTIDA 398
XLI VENICE 409
XLII LUCERNE 415
XLIII ENTERING GERMANY 424
XLIV A MEDIEVAL TOWN 437
XLV MY FATHER’S BIRTHPLACE 449
XLVI THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT 454
XLVII BERLIN 462
XLVIII THE NIGHT-LIFE OF BERLIN 474
XLIX ON THE WAY TO HOLLAND 486
L AMSTERDAM 494
LI “SPOTLESS TOWN” 501
LII PARIS AGAIN 507
LIII THE VOYAGE HOME 515

ILLUSTRATIONS

Piccadilly Circus _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

I saw Mr. G. conversing with Miss E. 8

One of those really interesting conversations between
Barfleur and Miss X. 20

“I like it,” he pronounced. “The note is somber, but
it is excellent work” 70

Hoped for the day when the issue might be tried out
physically 74

Here the Thames was especially delightful 90

Barfleur 156

The French have made much of the Seine 228

One of the thousands upon thousands of cafés on the
boulevards of Paris 236

These places were crowded with a gay and festive throng 244

I looked to a distant table to see the figure he indicated 252

“My heavens, how well she keeps up!” 290

I sated myself on the house fronts or backs below the
Ponte Vecchio 384

There can only be one Venice 404

A German dance hall, Berlin 464

Teutonic bursts of temper 482

A TRAVELER AT FORTY