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XII. EXCURSUS OF YOLANDE’S UNDOING. . . . . 82
XIII. PHILOSOPHY OF GOGYRVAN GAWR. . . . . 87
XIV. PRELIMINARY TACTICS OF DUKE JURGEN. . . . . 94
XV. OF COMPROMISES IN GLATHION. . . . . 104
XVI. DIVERS IMBROGLIOS OF KING SMOIT. . . . . 111
XVII. ABOUT A COCK THAT CROWED TOO SOON. . . . . 122
XVIII. WHY MERLIN TALKED IN TWILIGHT. . . . . 129
XIX. THE BROWN MAN WITH QUEER FEET. . . . . 136
XX. EFFICACY OF PRAYER. . . . . 141
XXI. HOW ANAПTIS VOYAGED. . . . . 147
XXII. AS TO A VEIL THEY BROKE. . . . . 151
XXIII. SHORTCOMINGS OF PRINCE JURGEN. . . . . 159
XXIV. OF COMPROMISES IN COCAIGNE. . . . . 173
XXV. CANTRAPS OF THE MASTER PHILOLOGIST. . . . . 180
XXVI. IN TIME’S HOUR-GLASS. . . . . 185
XXVII. VEXATIOUS ESTATE OF QUEEN HELEN. . . . . 192
XXVIII. OF COMPROMISES IN LEUKК. . . . . 201
XXIX. CONCERNING HORVENDILE’S NONSENSE. . . . . 215
XXX. ECONOMICS OF KING JURGEN. . . . . 224
XXXI. THE FALL OF PSEUDOPOLIS. . . . . 230
XXXII. SUNDRY DEVICES OF THE PHILISTINES. . . . . 235
XXXIII. FAREWELL TO CHLORIS. . . . . 246
XXXIV. HOW EMPEROR JURGEN FARED INFERNALLY. . . . . 251
XXXV. WHAT GRANDFATHER SATAN REPORTED. . . . . 255
XXXVI. WHY COTH WAS CONTRADICTED. . . . . 260
XXXVII. INVENTION OF THE LOVELY VAMPIRE. . . . . 268
XXXVIII. AS TO APPLAUDED PRECEDENTS. . . . . 273
XXXIX. OF COMPROMISES IN HELL. . . . . 282
XL. THE ASCENSION OF POPE JURGEN. . . . . 290
XLI. OF COMPROMISES IN HEAVEN. . . . . 296
XLII. TWELVE THAT ARE FRETTED HOURLY. . . . . 308
XLIII. POSTURES BEFORE A SHADOW. . . . . 314
XLIV. IN THE MANAGER'S OFFICE. . . . . 327
XLV. THE FAITH OF GUENEVERE. . . . . 335
XLVI. THE DESIRE OF ANAПTIS. . . . . 340
XLVII. THE VISION OF HELEN. . . . . 345
XLVIII. CANDID OPINIONS OF DAME LISA. . . . . 349
XLIX. OF THE COMPROMISE WITH KOSHCHEI. . . . . 356
L. THE MOMENT THAT DID NOT COUNT. . . . . 364



1.
Why Jurgen Did the Manly Thing

IT is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, saying: In the old days lived a pawnbroker named Jurgen; but what his wife called him was very often much worse than that. She was a high-spirited woman, with no especial gift for silence. Her name, they say, was Adelais, but people by ordinary called her Dame Lisa.
They tell, also, that in the old days, after putting up the shop-windows for the night, Jurgen was passing the Cistercian Abbey, on his way home: and one of the monks had tripped over a stone in the roadway. He was cursing the devil who had placed it there.

"Fie, brother!" says Jurgen, "and have not the devils enough to bear as it is?"