Chapter I: Front Matter

MRS. RADIGAN

MRS. RADIGAN

HER BIOGRAPHY, WITH THAT OF MISS
PEARL VEAL, AND THE MEMOIRS
OF J. MADISON MUDISON

BY

NELSON Lloyd

AUTHOR OF "THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEY," ETC.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1905

Copyright, 1905, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

_Published, September, 1905_

TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The First Chapter and the Last 1

II. My First Great Social Adventure--The
Horse-show with the Radigans 21

III. A Week-end at Westbury 33

IV. In the New Box at the Opera 41

V. Mrs. Radigan's First Thursday 48

VI. The Monday Cotillons 57

VII. Mrs. Radigan Captures Miss Bumpschus 65

VIII. The Small Dance at Flurry's 73

IX. Our Talk Over Tea 81

X. Miss Veal's Engagement is Announced 89

XI. An Awfully Good Time 96

XII. We Inspect the New House 103

XIII. We Go Skating at Exudo 114

XIV. Exit Plumstone Smith, Jr. 123

XV. My Dinner to Miss Pearl Veal 130

XVI. Mrs. Radigan's Costume-ball 139

XVII. The Duke of Nocastle Arrives 149

XVIII. A Problem for the Duke 158

XIX. His Grace Still Hesitates 168

XX. Sir Charles Wigge Takes Possession 180

XXI. Pearl Veal's Answer to the Duke
of Nocastle 193

XXII. Tumbleton Tumm, the Minstrel 205

XXIII. The Wedding of the Season 215

XXIV. Mrs. Radigan Being Smart, Becomes
Clever 230

XXV. Pearl Veal and I 244

XXVI. In which Mr. Mudison in His Memoirs Gives Us Some
Insight into Mrs. Radigan's Shattered Romance 257

XXVII. Mr. Mudison Gives a Theatre-Party
for Mrs. Underbunk 270

XXVIII. Mr. Mudison Sees Mrs. Underbunk
at the Opera 283

XXIX. Mr. Mudison Leads the Cotillon
at the Twitters' 297

XXX. At the Races 313

XXXI. Mr. Mudison is Uncomfortable
but Happy 328

MRS. RADIGAN