FOREWORD CASTLES IN THE AIR CHAPTER I. — A ROLAND FOR HIS OLIVER CHAPTER II. — A FOOL’S PARADISE CHAPTER III. — ON THE BRINK CHAPTER IV. — CARISSIMO CHAPTER V. — THE TOYS CHAPTER VI. — HONOUR AMONG—— CHAPTER VII. — AN OVER-SENSITIVE HEART In presenting this engaging rogue to my readers, I feel that I owe them, if not an apology, at least an explanation for this attempt at enlisting sympathy in favour of a man who has little to recommend him save his own unconscious humour. In very truth my good friend Ratichon is an unblushing liar, thief, a forger—anything you will; his vanity is past belief, his scruples are non-existent. How he escaped a convict settlement it is difficult to imag…
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