New York
McClure, Phillips & Co.
MCMI
Copyright, 1900 and 1901, by ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS
THIRD EDITION
Trow Directory
Printing & Bookbinding Company
New York
| A Table of the Contents | ||
| PAGE | ||
| I | A Suppressed Passage | [1] |
| II | Mr Cholderton's Imp | [10] |
| III | On Guard | [22] |
| IV | She Could an' She Would | [34] |
| V | The First Round | [48] |
| VI | The Attraction of It | [61] |
| VII | The Moment Draws Near | [74] |
| VIII | Duty and Mr Neeld | [88] |
| IX | The Man in Possession | [101] |
| X | Behold the Heir! | [114] |
| XI | A Phantom by the Pool | [129] |
| XII | Fighters and Doubters | [143] |
| XIII | In the Long Gallery | [158] |
| XIV | The Very Same Day | [173] |
| XV | An Inquisition Interrupted | [190] |
| XVI | The New Life | [205] |
| XVII | River Scenes and Bric-à-Brac | [220] |
| XVIII | Conspirators and a Crux | [233] |
| XIX | In the Matter of Blinkhampton | [248] |
| XX | The Tristram Way—A Specimen | [264] |
| XXI | The Persistence of Blent | [279] |
| XXII | An Insult to the Blood | [296] |
| XXIII | A Decree of Banishment | [312] |
| XXIV | After the End of All | [328] |
| XXV | There's the Lady Too! | [342] |
| XXVI | A Business Call | [358] |
| XXVII | Before Translation | [375] |
| XXVIII | The Cat and the Bell | [391] |
| XXIX | The Curmudgeon | [407] |
| XXX | Till the Next Generation | [420] |
I
A Suppressed Passage
Mr Jenkinson Neeld was an elderly man of comfortable private means; he had chambers in Pall Mall, close to the Imperium Club, and his short stoutish figure, topped by a chubby spectacled face, might be seen entering that dignified establishment every day at lunch time, and also at the hour of dinner on the evenings when he had no invitation elsewhere. He had once practised at the Bar, and liked to explain that he had deserted his profession for the pursuit of literature. He did not, however, write on his own account; he edited. He would edit anything provided there was no great public demand for an edition of it. Regardless of present favor, he appealed to posterity—as gentlemen with private means are quite entitled to do. Perhaps he made rather high demands on posterity; but that was his business—and its. At any rate his taste was curious and his conscience acute. He was very minute and very scrupulous, very painstaking and very discreet, in the exercise of his duties. Posterity may perhaps like these qualities in an editor of memoirs and diaries; for such were Mr Neeld's favorite subjects. Sometimes he fell into a sore struggle between curiosity and discretion, having impulses in himself which he forbore to attribute to posterity.