Three of these stories--‘Armand’s Mistake,’ ‘A Page of Philosophy,’ and ‘The Little Marquis’ have already appeared in _Macmillan’s Magazine_, and I am indebted to Messrs. Macmillan for the kind permission to republish them. IT was a warm autumn that year--a luminous exception upon which the last summer of the century was borne somewhat oppressively to the very verge of winter. The middle hours of the afternoon could be intolerable enough in a big, busy city well upon the confines of the South. The rush and whirr of looms was carried far upon the air, and even into the quietest streets wandered the noisy echoes of the boulevards.…
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