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A Man of Honor. George Cary Eggleston
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Автор произведения George Cary Eggleston
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"LET HIM SERVE IT AT ONCE, THEN."
Mr. Pagebrook Takes a Lesson in the Law.
Mr. Pagebrook Cuts himself loose from the Past and Plans a Future.
In which Miss Sudie Acts very Unreasonably.
In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method.
Mr. Pagebrook Accepts an Invitation to Lunch and another Invitation.
Major Pagebrook asserts himself.
Mr. Barksdale, the Younger, Goes upon a Journey.
The younger Mr. Barksdale Asks to be put upon His Oath.
Mr. William Barksdale Explains.
"I'M AS PROUD AND AS GLAD AS A BOY WITH RED MOROCCO TOPS TO HIS BOOTS."
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW."
PREFACE.
I have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a pretty good story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usual press copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair way to have my curiosity on that point satisfied.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| "I've got You Now." | Frontispiece. |
| Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "Blue." | 13 |
| "I fall at once into a Chronic State of Washing up Things." | 57 |
| "Foggy." | 73 |
| Cousin Sarah Ann | 87 |
| The Rivulets of Blue Blood | 98 |
| Miss Sudie declares herself "so glad." | 116 |
| "Let him Serve it at once, then." | 156 |
| "Very well, then." | 194 |
| "I'm as Proud and as Glad as a Boy with Red Morocco Tops to his Boots." | 218 |
A MAN OF HONOR.
CHAPTER I.
Mr. Pagebrook gets up and calls an Ancient Lawgiver.
Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "blue." There was no denying the fact, and for the first time in his life he admitted it as he lay abed one September morning with his hands locked over the top of his head, while his shapely and muscular body was stretched at lazy length under a scanty covering of sheet. He was snappish too, as his faithful serving man had discovered upon knocking half an hour ago for entrance,