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Allen Grant. Blood Royal
Blood Royal
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. PERADVENTURE
CHAPTER II. THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE
CHAPTER III. DISCOUNTING IT
CHAPTER IV. A ROYAL POURPARLER
CHAPTER V. GOOD SOCIETY
CHAPTER VI. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING
CHAPTER VII. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART
CHAPTER VIII. AT 'OXFORD COLLEGE.'
CHAPTER IX. A SUDDEN RESOLVE
CHAPTER X. MR. PLANTAGENET LIVES AGAIN
CHAPTER XI. A TRAGEDY OR A COMEDY?
CHAPTER XII TRAGEDY WINS
CHAPTER XIII. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR
CHAPTER XIV. BREAKING IT OFF
CHAPTER XV. A WILLING PRISONER
CHAPTER XVI. LOOKING ABOUT HIM
CHAPTER XVII. IN SEARCH OF AN ANCESTOR
CHAPTER XVIII. GOOD OUT OF EVIL
THE END
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Grant Allen
A Novel
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'Oh, Clarry,' he cried with a pained face, 'you know you can't have looked at it. Not a hard bit, indeed! why, it's one of the obscurest and most debated passages in all Thucydides! Now, what's the use of my getting you a nomination, old man, and coaching you so hard, and helping to pay your way at the grammar school, in hopes of your getting an Exhibition in time, if you won't work for yourself, and lift yourself on to a better position?' And he glanced at the wooden mantelpiece, on whose vacant scroll he had carved deep with his penknife his own motto in life, 'Noblesse oblige,' in Lombardic letters, for his brother's benefit.
Clarence dropped his eyes and looked really penitent.
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