[1] See 'The Fat and the Thin,' in which story already figures little Pauline, who becomes the heroine of 'The Joy of Life.'—Ed.

[2] £320.

[3] The chief character in 'Money.'—Ed.

[4] The English tourist goes cycling and snap-shotting through the picturesque Norman villages, never dreaming, as a rule, that he is amongst the most sottish and vicious of all the French peasantry.—Ed.

[5] The equivalent of the English County Council.—Ed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE   v
CHAPTER I   1
CHAPTER II 28
CHAPTER III 56
CHAPTER IV 90
CHAPTER V124
CHAPTER VI149
CHAPTER VII184
CHAPTER VIII   218
CHAPTER IX251
CHAPTER X280
CHAPTER XI294
FOOTNOTES318