Robert M. McBride & Company
NEW YORK MCMXXV
COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED
AUGUST
1925
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dedication
To All Poor Gentlemen
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Mr. Petre wondering who or what he may have been | [Frontispiece] |
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| “... As though he were a Unicorn” | [11] |
| “... And the two ex-Lord-Chancellors agreed” | [27] |
| Mrs. Cyril leaping to the telephone | [37] |
| His Grace the Proprietor of the “Messenger”conferring the Order of the Boot on Mr. Batterby,of Golder’s Green in the County of Middlesex | [52] |
| Sir Jeremiah Walton, God’s servant | [57] |
| Minatory but Patient Admonishment of the IgnobleAlgernon by Breeches of Bolter’s Club,St. James’ (S.W.1) | [62] |
| “... Spectacles adorning a face like the fullmoon” | [69] |
| “His forehead witnessed to a lifetime of profoundthought, his white beard to carefulgrooming” | [72] |
| The Partners | [89] |
| “Exactly. I quite understand” | [99] |
| Dada Beeston (Dorothea Madua, second andyounger daughter of Henry, 10th Baron Beeston,of Beeston Abbey, Beeston, Rutlandshire;and of Desirée Waldschwein, his wife) | [131] |
| “One had chosen Public Service, the other—Affairs” | [138] |
| “He used to think in three figures; he was nowthinking in five” | [144] |
| Young Mr. Cassleton, growing acquainted withthe World of Affairs | [150] |
| The Public discovering no small appetite for theDebentures at 8% | [173] |
| “He had decided” | [189] |
| The Great Specialist wrote:—“Special circumstances:A Bastard” | [199] |
| The second and more jovial Great Specialist, SirWilliam Bland | [208] |
| Joyous recognition of Buffy Thomas | [218] |
| John Kosciusko protesting against the interferenceof Peers in Judicial Procedure | [267] |
| Ermyntrude, First (and Last) ViscountessBoole: Lord Chancellor of England | [272] |
MR. PETRE
MR. PETRE