SEVEN MEN
by Max Beerbohm
Transcriber’s Note:
From the version of “Seven Men” published in 1919 by William
Heinemann (London). Two of the stories have been omitted
(“James Pethel” and “A.V. Laider”) since they are available
separately from Project Gutenberg.
In this plain ASCII version, emphasis and syllable
stress italics have been converted to capitals; foreign italics and accents
have been removed
In “Enoch Soames:”
I added a missing closing quotation mark in the following
phrase: ‘Ten past two,’ he said.
In “Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton:”
I changed the opening double quote to a single quote in:
‘I wondered what old Mr. Abraham Hayward...
and
‘I knew that if I leaned forward...