Chapter I. was not Chapter I., nor chapter of any kind, would you have

read it? Would you not have skipped it, clear and clean (for it’s a hundred to one that you are a woman), had you known that it was my Introduction?

[Illustration: SYMPHONY OF LIFE. MOVEMENT I.

_Allegro con brio._ L. van Beethoven, _“Eroica” Symphony_.

{The first page of the score of the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony is shown.}]

SYMPHONY OF LIFE.

MOVEMENT I.