Chapter VII: Part I

SIEUR CLUBIN Book I.—The History of a Bad Reputation CHAP. PAGE I. A Word written on a White Page 1 II. The Bû de la Rue 3 III. For your Wife: when you Marry 7 IV. An Unpopular Man 9 V. More Suspicious Facts about Gilliatt 18 VI. The Dutch Sloop 20 VII. A Fit Tenant for a Haunted House 25 VIII. The Gild-Holm-'Ur Seat 27

Book II.—Mess Lethierry I. A Troubled Life, but a Quiet Conscience 30 II. A Certain Predilection 32 III. The Old Sea Language 33 IV. One is Vulnerable where one Loves 35

Book III.—Durande and Déruchette I. Prattle and Smoke 37 II. The Old Story of Utopia 39 III. Rantaine 41 IV. Continuation of the Story of Utopia 44 V. The Devil Boat 46 VI. Lethierry's Exaltation 50 VII. The same Godfather and the same Patron Saint 52 VIII. "Bonnie Dundee" 54 IX. The Man who discovered Rantaine's Character 57 X. Long Yarns 58 XI. Matrimonial Prospects 60 XII. An Anomaly in the Character of Lethierry 61 XIII. Thoughtlessness adds a Grace to Beauty 65

Book IV.—The Bagpipe I. Streaks of Fire on the Horizon 67 II. The Unknown unfolds itself by Degrees 69 III. The Air "Bonnie Dundee" finds an Echo on the Hill 71 IV. "A serenade by night may please a lady fair, But of uncle and of guardian let the troubadour beware." Unpublished Comedy 72 V. A Deserved Success has always its Detractors 74 VI. The Sloop Cashmere saves a Shipwrecked Crew 75 VII. How an Idler had the Good Fortune to be seen by a Fisherman 77