LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664564153

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       IRENE

       CHAPTER II

       THE PERIOD, AND THE COMING OF WINGS

       CHAPTER III

       THE MILLION TO ONE CHANCE

       CHAPTER IV

       THE COMPACT

       CHAPTER V

       THE DOWNTRODDEN

       CHAPTER VI

       MISS LISLE TELLS A LONG POINTLESS STORY

       CHAPTER VII

       "SCHEDULE B"

       CHAPTER VIII

       TANTROY EARNS HIS WAGE

       CHAPTER IX

       SECRET HISTORY

       CHAPTER X

       THE ORDER OF ST MARTIN OF TOURS

       CHAPTER XI

       MAN BETWEEN TWO MASTERS

       CHAPTER XII

       BY TELESCRIBE

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE EFFECT OF THE BOMB

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE LAST CHANCE AND THE COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCE

       CHAPTER XV

       THE GREAT FIASCO

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE DARK WINTER

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE INCIDENT OF THE 13TH OF JANUARY

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE MUSIC AND THE DANCE

       CHAPTER XIX

       THE "FINIS" MESSAGE

       CHAPTER XX

       STOBALT OF SALAVEIRA

       CHAPTER XXI

       THE BARGAIN OF FAMINE

       CHAPTER XXII

       "POOR ENGLAND."

       THE END.

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CHAPTER I

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IRENE

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      "I suppose I am old-fashioned"—there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed—"Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of"—she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off—"well, of standing on her head."

      "No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it wasn't invented. But you went bicycling, and your mothers were very shocked at first."

      "I

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