Оглавление
Alfred Henry Lewis. The President
The President
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER I
HOW RICHARD BEGAN TO WOO
CHAPTER II
HOW A PRESIDENT IS BRED
One of the Most Reverend of the Senate Walruses
CHAPTER III
HOW MR. GWYNN DINED WITH THE HARLEYS
CHAPTER IV
HOW A SPEAKERSHIP WAS FOUGHT FOR
CHAPTER V
HOW RICHARD WAS TAUGHT MANY THINGS
At the Door of the Caucus Room
CHAPTER VI
HOW STORRI HAD A VIVID IMAGINATION
CHAPTER VII
HOW RICHARD GAINED IN KNOWLEDGE
CHAPTER VIII
HOW STORRI WOOED MRS. HANWAY-HARLEY
CHAPTER IX
HOW STORRI MADE AN OFFER OF HIS LOVE
CHAPTER X
HOW STORRI PLOTTED A VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XI
HOW MR. HARLEY FOUND HIMSELF A FORGER
CHAPTER XII
HOW MR. FOPLING WAS INSPIRED
CHAPTER XIII
HOW THE SAN REVE GAVE STORRI WARNING
CHAPTER XIV
HOW THEY TALKED POLITICS AT MR. GWYNN's
CHAPTER XV
HOW RICHARD MET INSPECTOR VAL
It was a Kind of Prodigy
CHAPTER XVI
HOW RICHARD RECEIVED A LETTER
That Artist of Pursuit
CHAPTER XVII
HOW NORTHERN CONSOLIDATED WAS SOLD
"Sit Down!" Thundered Mr. Harley
CHAPTER XVIII
HOW STORRI EXPLORED FOR GOLD
He Held Her Close
CHAPTER XIX
HOW LONDON BILL TOOK A PAL
"It'll Take Two Months to Dig that Tunnel."
CHAPTER XX
HOW STORRI FOOLISHLY WROTE A MESSAGE
CHAPTER XXI
HOW THE GOLD CAME DOWN
CHAPTER XXII
HOW THE SAN REVE KEPT HER STORRI
CHAPTER XXIII
HOW RICHARD AND DOROTHY SAILED AWAY
Отрывок из книги
Alfred Henry Lewis
A Novel
.....
Mr. Patrick Henry Hanway, a Senator of the United States, had the countenance of a prelate and the conscience of a buccaneer. His grandfather—it was at this old gentleman, for lack of information, he was compelled to stop his ancestral count—was a farmer in his day. Also, personally, he had been the soul of ignorance and religion, and of a narrowness touching Scriptural things that oft got him into trouble.
Grandfather Hanway read his Bible and believed it. He held that the earth was flat; that it had four corners; and that the sun went around the earth. He replied to a neighbor who assured him that the earth revolved, by placing a pan of water on his gate-post. Not a drop was spilled, not a spoonful missing, in the morning. He showed this to the astronomical neighbor as refutatory of that theory of revolution.
.....
