The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Little Gentleman 9 II Hunting a Home 14 III A Startled Sleeper 19 IV The Blackbird's Nest 25 V Dickie's Summer Home 30 VI A Warning 34 VII Noisy Visitors 39 VIII In the Cornfield 44 IX Fatty Coon Needs Help 49 X A Bit of Advice 53 XI A Search in Vain 58 XII A Little Surprise 65 XIII The Feathers Fly 70 XIV Making Ready for Winter 75 XV A Plunge In The Dark 80 XVI A Lucky Find 85 XVII A Slight Mistake 89
a lover, I, your mother, will stand between you and him. Do you see
that dagger? It is in your 'dot,'" she continued, throwing the weapon
on Juana's bed. "I leave it there as the guarantee of your honor so
long as my eyes are open and my arm free. Farewell," she said,
restraining her tears. "God grant that we may never meet again."
At that idea, her tears began to flow.
"Poor child!" she added, "you have been happier than you knew in this
dull home.--Do not allow her to regret it," she said, turning to
Diard.
The foregoing rapid narrative is not the principal subject of this
Study, for the understanding of which it was necessary to explain how
it happened that the quartermaster Diard married Juana di Mancini,
that Montefiore and Diard were intimately known to each other, and to
show plainly what blood and what passions were in Madame Diard.
CHAPTER III
THE HISTORY OF MADAME DIARD
By the time that the quartermaster had fulfilled all the long and
dilatory formalities without which no French soldier can be married,
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Little Gentleman 9 II Hunting a Home 14 III A Startled Sleeper 19 IV The Blackbird's Nest 25 V Dickie's Summer Home 30 VI A Warning 34 VII Noisy Visitors 39 VIII In the Cornfield 44 IX Fatty Coon Needs Help 49 X A Bit of Advice 53 XI A Search in Vain 58 XII A Little Surprise 65 XIII The Feathers Fly 70 XIV Making Ready for Winter 75 XV A Plunge In The Dark 80 XVI A Lucky Find 85 XVII A Slight Mistake 89