Название: His Lordship's Leopard: A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts
Автор: David Dwight Wells
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066145019
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David Dwight Wells
His Lordship's Leopard: A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066145019
Table of Contents
IN WHICH CECIL BANBOROUGH ACHIEVES FAME AND THE "DAILY LEADER" A "SCOOP."
IN WHICH CECIL BANBOROUGH ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE PUBLIC OPINION.
IN WHICH CECIL BANBOROUGH DRIVES A BLACK MARIA.
IN WHICH THE BLACK MARIA RECEIVES A NEW INMATE.
IN WHICH THE PARTY RECEIVES A NEW IMPETUS.
IN WHICH THE BISHOP OF BLANFORD RECEIVES A BLACK EYE.
IN WHICH A LINE IS DRAWN AND CROSSED.
IN WHICH A LOCKET IS ACCEPTED AND A RING REFUSED.
IN WHICH MRS. MACKINTOSH ADMIRES JONAH.
IN WHICH PEACE IS PROPOSED AND WAR DECLARED.
IN WHICH THE BISHOP IS ABDUCTED.
IN WHICH THE BISHOP EATS JAM TART, AND MISS MATILDA HUMBLE-PIE.
IN WHICH MISS ARMINSTER PROPOSES TO MARRY AGAIN.
IN WHICH MISS ARMINSTER VERIFIES THE PROVERB.
PART I.
AMERICA.
CHAPTER I.
IN WHICH CECIL BANBOROUGH ACHIEVES FAME AND THE "DAILY LEADER" A "SCOOP."
Cecil Banborough stood at one of the front windows of a club which faced on Fifth Avenue, his hands in his pockets, and a cigarette in his mouth, idly watching the varied life of the great thoroughfare. He had returned to the city that morning after a two weeks' absence in the South, and, having finished his lunch, was wondering how he could manage to put in the time till the 4:30 express left for Meadowbrook. 2 p.m., he reflected ruefully, was an hour when New York had no use and no resources for men of leisure like himself.
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