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A wealthy widower withdraws from public life after his wife’s death but gradually resumes social engagements and becomes attracted to a young woman, Maida Barhyte. Their growing association propels him through salons, foreign resorts, and a series of encounters with friends, unexpected guests, and awkward communications. The plot traces petty intrigues, travel, and financial reckonings that complicate courtship and domestic plans, while the tone remains urbane and satirical. Recurring motifs of mourning, social performance, and the uneasy restoration of ordinary life shape a compact narrative about personal vulnerability and the small disasters that accompany attempts at renewal.

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Title: Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

Author: Edgar Saltus

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MR. INCOUL’S
MISADVENTURE

BY THE SAME AUTHOR:

THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISENCHANTMENT.

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“Mr. Saltus is a scientific pessimist, as witty, as bitter, as satirical, as interesting and as insolent to humanity in general as are his great teachers, Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann.”—Worcester Spy.

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“The work is remarkable in every way and its originality and power will compel for it more than an ephemeral existence, for independently of the force with which it deals with its theme its literary merits are of a high order, and its reflections are those of a bold, brilliant and able thinker.”—Boston Saturday Review.

IN PREPARATION,

CIMMERIA.

MR.  INCOUL’S  MISADVENTURE

A NOVEL

BY

EDGAR SALTUS

And thine eye shall not pity.
Deuteronomy, XIX. 21.

NEW YORK
BENJAMIN & BELL

M DCCC LXXXVII

Copyright, 1887, by Edgar Saltus

GILLISS BROTHERS & TURNURE
THE ART AGE PRESS
400 & 402 WEST 14TH STREET, N. Y.

TO

E. A. S.

CONTENTS.

Chapter. PAGE
I. Mr. Incoul, 11
II. Miss Barhyte Agrees to Change her Name, 18
III. After Darkness, 30
IV. An Evening Call, 42
V. A Yellow Envelope, 51
VI. Biarritz, 68
VII. What may be Seen from a Palco, 84
VIII. An Unexpected Guest, 101
IX. Mr. Incoul Dines in Spain, 114
X. The Point of View, 127
XI. The House in the Parc Monceau, 138
XII. Mr. Incoul is Preoccupied, 146
XIII. What may be Heard in a Greenroom, 155
XIV. Karl Grows a Moustache, 163
XV. May Expostulates, 178
XVI. The Bare Bodkin, 188
XVII. Maida’s Nuptials, 202
XVIII. Mr. Incoul Goes over the Accounts, 211