IN expressing my acknowledgments for the favorable reception accorded to the previous editions of this story, I may take the present opportunity of adverting to one of the characters, not alluded to in the Letter of Dedication. The German oculist--"Herr Grosse"--has impressed himself so strongly as a real personage on the minds of some of my readers afflicted with blindness, or suffering from diseases of the eye, that I have received several written applications requesting me to communicate his present address to patients desirous of consulting him! Sincerely appreciating the testimony thus rendered to the truth of this little study of character, I have been obliged to acknowledge to my correspondents--and I may as well repeat it here--that Herr Grosse has no (individual) living prototype. Like the other Persons of the Drama, in this book and in the books which have preceded it, he is drawn from my general observation of humanity. I have always considered it to be a mistake in Art to limit the delineation of character in fiction to a literary portrait taken from any one "sitter." The result of this process is generally (to my mind) to produce a caricature instead of a character.
FIRST Madame Pratolungo presents Herself SECOND Madame Pratolungo makes a Voyage on Land THIRD Poor Miss Finch FOURTH Twilight View of the Man FIFTH Candlelight View of the Man SIXTH A Cage of Finches SEVENTH Daylight View of the Man EIGHTH The Perjury of the Clock NINTH The Hero of the Trial TENTH First Appearance of Jicks ELEVENTH Blind Love TWELFTH Mr. Finch smells Money THIRTEENTH Second Appearance of Jicks FOURTEENTH Discoveries at Browndown FIFTEENTH Events at the Bedside SIXTEENTH First Result of the Robbery SEVENTEENTH The Doctor's Opinion EIGHTEENTH Family Troubles NINETEENTH Second Result of the Robbery TWENTIETH Good Papa again! TWENTY-FIRST Madame Pratolungo Returns to Dimchurch TWENTY-SECOND The Twin-Brother's Letter TWENTY-THIRD He sets us All Right TWENTY-FOURTH He sees Lucilla TWENTY-FIFTH Nugent puzzles Madame Pratolungo TWENTY-SIXTH He proves Equal to the Occasion TWENTY-SEVENTH He finds a Way out of it TWENTY-EIGHTH He crosses the Rubicon TWENTY-NINTH Parliamentary Summary THIRTIETH Herr Grosse THIRTY-FIRST "Who Shall Decide when Doctors disagree?" THIRTY-SECOND Alas for the Marriage! THIRTY-THIRD The Day Between THIRTY-FOURTH Nugent shows his Hand THIRTY-FIFTH Lucilla tries her Sight THIRTY-SIXTH The Brothers Meet THIRTY-SEVENTH The Brothers change Places THIRTY-EIGHTH Is there no Excuse for Him? THIRTY-NINTH She Learns to See FORTIETH Traces of Nugent FORTY-FIRST A Hard Time for Madame Pratolungo FORTY-SECOND The Story of Lucilla: told by Herself FORTY-THIRD Lucilla's Journal, continued FORTY-FOURTH Lucilla's Journal, continued FORTY-FIFTH Lucilla's Journal, concluded FORTY-SIXTH The Italian Steamer FORTY-SEVENTH On the Way to the End. First Stage FORTY-EIGHTH On the Way to the End. Second Stage FORTY-NINTH On the Way to the End. Third Stage FIFTIETH The End of the Journey EPILOGUE Madame Pratolungo's Last Words