toy village comes painted from the shop
     We must believe, if we believe at all, without authority
     We are always trying to get away from ourselves
     We never can foresee how we may change
     We have no control over our affections
     When our brief span of usefulness is done
     Who had learned the lesson of mothers,—­how to wait
     Whole conception of charity is a crime against civilization
     You and your religion are as far apart as the poles

RICHARD CARVEL

By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS

Volume 1. 
I. Lionel Carvel, of Carvel Hall
II.  Some Memories of Childhood
III.  Caught by the Tide
IV.  Grafton would heal an Old Breach
V.  “If Ladies be but Young and Fair”
Vi.  I first suffer for the Cause
VII.  Grafton has his Chance

Volume 2. 
VIII.  Over the Wall
IX.  Under False Colours
X. The Red in the Carvel Blood
XI.  A Festival and a Parting
XII.  News from a Far Country

Volume 3. 
XIII.  Mr. Allen shows his Hand
XIV.  The Volte Coupe
XV.  Of which the Rector has the Worst
XVI.  In which Some Things are made Clear
XVII.  South River
XVIII.  The Black Moll

Volume 4. 
XIX.  A Man of Destiny
XX.  A Sad Home-coming
XXI.  The Gardener’s Cottage
XXII.  On the Road
XXIII.  London Town
XXIV.  Castle Yard
XXV.  The Rescue

Volume 5. 
XXVI.  The Part Horatio played
XXVII.  In which I am sore tempted
XXVIII.  Arlington Street
XXIX.  I meet a very Great Young Man
XXX.  A Conspiracy
XXXI.  “Upstairs into the World”
XXXII.  Lady Tankerville’s Drum-major
XXXIII.  Drury Lane

Volume 6. 
XXXIV.  His Grace makes Advances
XXXV.  In which my Lord Baltimore appears
XXXVI.  A Glimpse of Mr. Garrick
XXXVII.  The Serpentine
XXXVIII.  In which I am roundly brought to task
XXXIX.  Holland House
XL.  Vauxhall
XLI.  The Wilderness

Volume 7. 
XLII.  My Friends are proven
XLIII.  Annapolis once more
XLIV.  Noblesse Oblige
XLV.  The House of Memories
XLVI.  Gordon’s Pride
XLVII.  Visitors
XLVIII.  Multum in Parvo
XLIX.  Liberty loses a Friend

Volume 8. 
L. Farewell to Gordon’s
LI.  How an Idle Prophecy came to pass
LII.  How the Gardener’s Son fought the Serapis
LIII.  In which I make Some Discoveries
LIV.  More Discoveries. 
LV.  The Love of a Maid for a Man
LVI.  How Good came out of Evil
LVII.  I come to my Own again

FOREWORD

My sons and daughters have tried to persuade me to remodel these memoirs of my grandfather into a latter-day romance.  But I have thought it wiser to leave them as he wrote them.  Albeit they contain some details not of interest to the general public, to my notion it is such imperfections as these which lend to them the reality they bear.  Certain it is, when reading them, I live his life over again.