Bailey, Temple .
Contrary Mary
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  • Chapter 01 CHAPTER I In Which Silken Ladies Ascend One Stairway, and a Lonely Wayfarer Ascends Another and Comes Face to Face With Old Friends.
  • Chapter 02 CHAPTER II In Which Rose-Leaves and Old Slippers Speed a Happy Pair; and in Which Sweet and Twenty Speaks a New and Modern Language, and Gives a Reason for Renting a Gentleman's Library.
  • Chapter 03 CHAPTER III In Which a Lonely Wayfarer Becomes Monarch of All He Surveys; and in Which One Who Might Have Been Presented as the Hero of This Tale is Forced, Through No Fault of His Own, to Take His Chances With the Rest.
  • Chapter 04 CHAPTER IV In Which a Little Bronze Boy Grins in the Dark; and in Which Mary Forgets That There is Any One Else in the House.
  • Chapter 05 CHAPTER V In Which Roger Remembers a Face and Delilah Remembers a Voice--and in Which a Poem and a Pussy Cat Play an Important Part.
  • Chapter 06 CHAPTER VI In Which Mary Brings Christmas to the Tower Rooms; and in Which Roger Declines a Privilege for Which Porter Pleads.
  • Chapter 07 CHAPTER VII In Which Aunt Frances Speaks of Matrimony as a Fixed Institution and is Met by Flaming Arguments; and in Which a Strange Voice Sings Upon the Stairs.
  • Chapter 08 CHAPTER VIII In Which Little-Lovely Leila Sees a Picture in an Unexpected Place; and in Which Perfect Faith Speaks Triumphantly Over the Telephone.
  • Chapter 09 CHAPTER IX In Which Roger Sallies Forth in the Service of a Damsel in Distress, and in Which He Meets Dragons Along the Way.
  • Chapter 10 CHAPTER X In Which a Scarlet Flower Blooms in the Garden; and in Which a Light Flares Later in the Tower.
  • Chapter 11 CHAPTER XI In Which Roger Writes a Letter; and in Which a Rose Blooms Upon the Pages of a Book.
  • Chapter 12 CHAPTER XII In Which Mary and Roger Have Their Hour; and in Which a Tea-Drinking Ends in What Might Have Been a Tragedy.
  • Chapter 13 CHAPTER XIII In Which the Whole World is at Sixes and Sevens, and in Which Life is Looked Upon as a Great Adventure.
  • Chapter 14 CHAPTER XIV In Which Mary Writes From the Tower Rooms; and in Which Roger Answers From Among the Pines.
  • Chapter 15 CHAPTER XV In Which Barry and Leila Go Over the Hills and Far Away; and in Which a March Moon Becomes a Honeymoon.
  • Chapter 16 CHAPTER XVI In Which a Long Name is Bestowed Upon a Beautiful Baby; and in Which a Letter in a Long Envelope Brings Freedom to Mary.
  • Chapter 17 CHAPTER XVII In Which an Artist Finds What All His Life He Has Been Looking For; and in Which He Speaks of a Little Saint in Red.
  • Chapter 18 CHAPTER XVIII In Which Mary Writes of the Workaday World, and in Which Roger Writes of the Dreams of a Boy.
  • Chapter 19 CHAPTER XIX In Which Porter Plants an Evil Seed Which Grows and Flourishes; and in Which Ghosts Rise and Confront Mary.
  • Chapter 20 CHAPTER XX In Which Mary Faces the Winter of Her Discontent; and in Which Delilah Sees Things in a Crystal Ball.
  • Chapter 21 CHAPTER XXI In Which a Little Lady in Black Comes to Washington to Witness the Swearing-in of a Gentleman and a Scholar.
  • Chapter 22 CHAPTER XXII In Which the Garden Begins to Bloom; and in Which Roger Dreams.
  • Chapter 23 CHAPTER XXIII In Which Little-Lovely Leila Looks Forward to the Month of May; and in Which Barry Rides Into a Town With Narrow Streets.
  • Chapter 24 CHAPTER XXIV In Which Roger Comes Once More to the Tower Rooms; and in Which a Duel is Fought in Modern Fashion.
  • Chapter 25 CHAPTER XXV In Which Mary Bids Farewell to the Old Life; and in Which She Finds Happiness on the High Seas.
  • Chapter 26 CHAPTER XXVI In Which a Strange Craft Anchors in a Sea of Emerald Light; and in Which Mocking-Birds Sing in the Moonlight.