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Over Bemerton's An EasyGoing Chronicle
Author: E. V. Lucas

CHAP. PAGE I. ONE TRAVELLER RETURNS AND FINDS A HOME IN XI. INTRODUC T I H N E G READER TO MR. AND MRS. WYNNE, A COUNTY CRICKETER, A SUFFRAGETTE, AN HEIR OF THE AGES, AN0 AN ANGEL . . . I 0 111. THE HAUNTS OF MEN REVISITED AND THE FIRST BEMERTONIA NU N G GET . . . . . . z o IV. DESCRIBIN M G R . AND MRS. DUCKIE, A LF PINTO, B TRICE A , N D ERN .... more » . . . . . 3 2 V. MR. DABNEY O F THE BALANCE LE TS HIMSELF G O . . 0 . W . . . 40 VI. MR. BEMERTON CO NFERS UPON ME THE FREEDOM OF HIS TREASURY . . 54 VII. RECALLS OLD STRUGGLES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF VIII. I MEET AN OLD FRIEND AND RECEIVE A LESSON IN PHILOSOPHY . . . . . . . . 7 2 IX. HOW MRS. FRANK TR IED HER . INNOCENT GAMES ON ONE OF THE GREAT ONES OF THE EARTH . 81 v OVER BEMERTONS XIII XIV. xv. XVI. XVII. XVIII. XIX. XX. PAGE A HERO-WORSHIPPER AGAIN GLIMPSES HIS HERO, AFTER MANY YEARS . . . a 91 MR. BEMERTONS F IRST BED BOOK BRINGS US INTO THE COMPANY OF QUAINT AND LEARNED GENTLEMEN . I01 1 GO INTO BUSINESS PRO 5-READ A GOOD POEM UNDER DIFFICULTY, AND LEARN SOMETHING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SECOND HANDBOOKSELLER . . . 127 THE LINKEDNESS OF LIFE IS ILLUSTRATED, AND 1 BECOME A MONEY-LENDER . . . . . 137 MR. DUCKIE, WITH HIS NAPKIN ON HIS ARM, SUGGESTS A SCHEME FOR H U NHA PPINESS 148 MR. DABNEY O F BALANCE M E n S MORE THAN HIS MATCH, AND FINDS A RESCUER 54 IN WHICH, AFTER EXCEEDINGLY TEDIOUS TALK ABOUT THE WISE EXPENDITURE OF SUPERFLUOUS CASH, AN IDLER IS SET TO WORK . . . 164 WE ASSIST AT A FUNCTION IN THE MODERN SMITHFIEL B D U , T NOT QUITE TO THE DEATH . 175 VERY CONGENIAL MATERIAL FOR LAUGHTER . 188 AN UNEXPECTED CHEQUE EADS TO PLANS OF TRAVEL, AND NAOMI AND I ACCEPT A RESPONSIBILITY , . 198 WE ARE WHIRLED AWAY BY THE 2.20 FROM CHARING C ROSS A ND MEET THE QUEEN O F THE ADRIATIC . . . . . 208 CHAP. XXII. XXVIII. CONTENTS vii PAGE MR. BEMERTONS SE COND BED BOOK SOWLCES ME WITH THE ODD AND HUMANE HUMOURS OF STUART A S N D TUDORS . . . 219 MISS AZURE V ERITY A ND MR. DABNEY OF THE BALANCE CONTINUE TO KEEP MY MIND TO ASINGLESUBJECT . m m m m m 231 WITH MR. BEMERTONS ASSISTANCE 1 TAKE REFUGE AMID A GALLANT COMPANY OF SEA DOGS . l . l 239 1 ASSIST AT TWO WEDDINGS AND HAVE THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTRASTING THE GRAVE AND THE GAY . m m l g MR. DABNEY AG AIN SUFFERS, AND THE YOUNGER GENERATION DOES NOT KNOCK AT THE DOOR BUT WALKS RIGHT IN AND TALKS EXTRAORDI NARY STRAIGHT TALK l l l . . 263 REACHING A POINT WHERE MY HISTORY BEGINS TO BE WORTH RECORDING, 1 CEASE TO NAR RATEIT l l l l l l 282 OVER BEMERTONS CHAPTER I ONE TRAVELLER RETURNS AND FINDS A HOME IN WESTMINSTER M R. FALCONER, said Naomi to Mrs. Duckie, wants quiet, clean rooms and the simplest cooking. Rarely anything but breakfast, and that v e j light. It must be in this neighbourhood, so as to be near Queen Annes Gate. Mrs. Duckie said that hers were the quietest rooms in London and almost the nearest to Queen Annes Gate certainly the nearest quiet rooms. As for her cooking, although she had of course in her time served up for dinner parties of ten or a dozen, when she was with Canon Lyme, she was famous for her small happetising meals too. If Mr. Dabney was only up and dressed we might ask him. Mr...

ISBN-13: 9781408639108
ISBN-10: 1408639106
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 294
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