The Green Overcoat - Classic Reprint Author:Hilaire Belloc The Green Overcoat. CHAPTER I. In which the Green Overcoat takes a J01trney. PROFESSOR HIGGINS.ON-to give him his true name-was a psychologist, celebrated throughout Europe, and recently attached to the m::>~ern and increasingly in1portant University called the c;.uelph University, in the large manufacturing town of Ormeston. His stipend was £80... more »0 a year. He was a tall, thin man, exceedi9gly shy and nervous, with weary, print-worn eyes, which nearly always looked a little pained, and were generally turned uneasily towards the ground. He did not dress carefully. He was not young. He had a trick of keeping both ... hands in his trouser pockets. He stooped somewhat at th~ shoulders, and wore a long, grey beard. He was a bachelor, 13
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; I~ "'HICH TUE GREEN OVERCOAT TAKES A JOURNEY 13; CHAPTER II; IN WHICH A PHILOSOPHER WRESTLES WITH THE; PRODLEM: OF' IDENTITY ? ? 29; CHAPTER III; IN WHICH THE GREEN OVERCOAT APPEARS AS A; POI~T OF RELIGION BY NOT BEING THERE ? 46; CHAPTER IV; IN WHICH IT IS SEEN THAT UNIVERSITY TRAINING; FITS ONE FOR A BUSINESS CAREER ? ?; CHAPTER V; IN WInCH SOLITUDE ]S UN ABLE TO DISCOVER THB; CHARMS WHICH SAGES HA VB SEEN IN HER FACE 84; CHAPTER VI; IN WHICH PROFESSOR HIGGINSON BEGINS TO TASTE; THE SWEETS OF FAMB ? ?; CHAPTER VII; IN WHICH PROFESSOR HIGGINSON GOES ON TASTING; THEM ? ' I3S; CHAPTER VIII; IN WHICH PROFESSOR HIGGINSON GETS THOSE SWEETS; BY THE WAGON-LOAD, AND ALSO HEARS now MEN; 1 ARE MADE ? ? ' 158; CHAPTER IX; IN 'VHICH TIlE GREEN OVERCOAT BEGINS TO ASSERT; ITSELF ? ? ? ? ? ? 175; -CONTENTS; CHAPTER X; IN WHICH A DESCE~DANT OF THE CRUSADERS REFUSES; TO HARBOUR STOLEN GOODS ?; CHAPTER XI; IN WHICH A POLE IS LESS SCRUPULOUS ?; CHAPTER XII; IN WIlIcn TUE READERKIN WILL, IF HE lIAS AN OUNCE; OF BRAINS, BEGIN TO CATCH THl!: INEVITABLE; 186; 20~; DE« less