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LOVE AND LUCY

by

MAURICE HEWLETT

Author of "The Forest Lovers," "The Life and
Death of Richard Yea and Nay," etc.







New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1916

Copyright, 1916
by Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.



                           _BEATI POSSIDENTES_




CONTENTS

  CHAPTER

      I  ONSLOW SQUARE                    1
     II  A DINNER PARTY                  16
    III  IN THE DRAWING-ROOM             31
     IV  AFTER-TALK                      41
      V  EROS STEPS IN                   53
     VI  A LEAP OUTWARDS                 74
    VII  PATIENCE AND PSYCHE             84
   VIII  AGAIN                          102
     IX  SUNDRY ROMANTIC EPISODES       112
      X  AT A WORLD'S EDGE              121
     XI  ANTEROS                        134
    XII  MARTLEY THICKET (1)            148
   XIII  MARTLEY THICKET (2)            162
    XIV  THE GREAT SCHEME               175
     XV  JAMES                          188
    XVI  _Amari Aliquid_                196
   XVII  THE SHIVERING FIT              209
  XVIII  THE HARDANGER                  227
    XIX  THE MOON-SPELL                 235
     XX  FAIR WARNING                   247
    XXI  THE DEPARTURE                  256
   XXII  CATASTROPHE                    268
  XXIII  JAMES AND JIMMY                280
   XXIV  URQUHART'S APOLOGY             292
         EPILOGUE: _Quid Plura_?        306




LOVE AND LUCY


CHAPTER I

ONSLOW SQUARE


This is a romantic tale. So romantic is it that I shall be forced to
pry into the coy recesses of the mind in order to exhibit a connected,
reasonable affair, not only of a man and his wife prosperously seated
in the mean of things, _nel mezzo del cammin_ in space as well as
time--for the Macartneys belonged to the middle class, and were well
on to the middle of life themselves--, but of stript, quivering and
winged souls tiptoe within them, tiptoe for flight into diviner spaces
than any seemly bodies