Unconscious duplicity: Bartleby, the scrivener.--High-spirited revolt: Cock-a-doodle-doo.--An hourglass run out: The Encantadas.--Some sly enchanter's show: The two temples.--Making sport of earnest: Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs.--The talismanic secret: The happy failure and The fiddler.--Grand irregular thunder: The lightning-rod man.--Travelers in Lapland: The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.--Cynic solitaire: The bell-tower.--A dark similitude: Benito Cereno.--The higher mathematics: I and my chimney.--Wedded warmth and chill: Jimmy Rose.--One spot of radiance: The piazza.--Mystery as mystery: The apple-tree table.