All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story
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ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN
AN IMPOSSIBLE STORY
BY WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE
NEW YORK LOVELL, CORYELL & COMPANY 43, 45 and 47 East 10th Street
TO The Memory OF JAMES RICE
The ten years' partnership of myself and my late friend Mr. James Rice has been terminated by death. I am persuaded that nothing short of death would have put an end to a partnership which was conducted throughout with perfect accord, and without the least difference of opinion. The long illness which terminated fatally on April 25th of this year began in January of last year. There were intervals during which he seemed to be recovering and gaining strength; he was, indeed, well enough in the autumn to try change of air by a visit to Holland; but he broke down again very shortly after his return: though he did not himself suspect it, he was under sentence of death, and for the last six months of his life his downward course was steady and continuous.
Almost the last act of his in our partnership was the arrangement, with certain country papers and elsewhere, for the serial publication of this novel, the subject and writing of which were necessarily left entirely to myself.
Walter Besant
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
PROLOGUE.—Part I.
PROLOGUE.—Part II.
CHAPTER I. NEWS FOR HIS LORDSHIP.
CHAPTER II. A VERY COMPLETE CASE.
CHAPTER III. ONLY A DRESSMAKER.
CHAPTER IV. UNCLE BUNKER.
CHAPTER V. THE CARES OF WEALTH.
CHAPTER VI. A FIRST STEP.
CHAPTER VII. THE TRINITY ALMSHOUSE.
CHAPTER VIII. WHAT HE GOT BY IT.
CHAPTER IX. THE DAY BEFORE THE FIRST.
CHAPTER X. THE GREAT DAVENANT CASE.
CHAPTER XI. THE FIRST DAY.
CHAPTER XII. SUNDAY AT THE EAST END.
CHAPTER XIII. ANGELA'S EXPERIMENT.
CHAPTER XIV. THE TENDER PASSION.
CHAPTER XV. A SPLENDID OFFER.
CHAPTER XVI. HARRY'S DECISION.
CHAPTER XVII. WHAT LORD JOCELYN THOUGHT.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PALACE OF DELIGHT.
CHAPTER XIX. DICK THE RADICAL.
CHAPTER XX. DOWN ON THEIR LUCK.
CHAPTER XXI. LADY DAVENANT.
CHAPTER XXII. DANIEL FAGG.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MISSING LINK.
CHAPTER XXIV. LORD JOCELYN'S TROUBLES.
CHAPTER XXV. AN INVITATION.
CHAPTER XXVI. LORD DAVENANT'S GREATNESS.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SAME SIGNS.
CHAPTER XXVIII. HARRY FINDS LIBERTY.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE FIGUREHEADS.
CHAPTER XXX. THE PROFESSOR'S PROPOSAL.
CHAPTER XXXI. CAPTAIN COPPIN.
CHAPTER XXXII. BUNKER AT BAY.
CHAPTER XXXIII. MR. BUNKER'S LETTER.
CHAPTER XXXIV. PROOFS IN PRINT.
CHAPTER XXXV. THEN WE'LL KEEP COMPANY.
CHAPTER XXXVI. WHAT WILL BE THE END?
CHAPTER XXXVII. TRUTH WITH FAITHFULNESS.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. I AM THE DRESSMAKER.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THRICE HAPPY BOY.
CHAPTER XL. SWEET NELLY.
CHAPTER XLI. BOXING-NIGHT.
CHAPTER XLII. NOT JOSEPHUS, BUT ANOTHER.
CHAPTER XLIII. O MY PROPHETIC SOUL!
CHAPTER XLIV. A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.
CHAPTER XLV. LADY DAVENANT'S DINNER-PARTY.
CHAPTER XLVI. THE END OF THE CASE.
CHAPTER XLVII. A PALACE OF DELIGHT.
CHAPTER XLVIII. MY LADY SWEET.
CHAPTER XLIX. "UPROUSE YE THEN, MY MERRY, MERRY MEN."
