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Anthony Hope. Tales of two people
Tales of two people
Table of Contents
HELENA’S PATH
CHAPTER I. AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH
CHAPTER II. LARGELY TOPOGRAPHICAL
CHAPTER III. OF LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS
CHAPTER IV. THE MESSAGE OF A PADLOCK
CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNING OF WAR
CHAPTER VI. EXERCISE BEFORE BREAKFAST
CHAPTER VII. ANOTHER WEDGE!
CHAPTER VIII. THE MARCHESA MOVES
CHAPTER IX. LYNBOROUGH DROPS A CATCH
CHAPTER X. IN THE LAST RESORT!
CHAPTER XI. AN ARMISTICE
CHAPTER XII. AN EMBASSAGE
CHAPTER XIII. THE FEAST OF ST JOHN BAPTIST
MRS THISTLETON’S PRINCESS
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
THE NECESSARY RESOURCES
MISS GLADWIN’S CHANCE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
THE PRINCE CONSORT
WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF MISS CONSTANTINE
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
SLIM-FINGERED JIM
I
II
III
THE GREY FROCK
FOREORDAINED
PRUDENCE AND THE BISHOP
THE OPENED DOOR
LOVE’S LOGIC[1]
LA MORT À LA MODE[2] MONSIEUR LE DUC—MADAME LA MARQUISE
THE RIDDLE OF COUNTESS RUNA
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II
III
IV
V
VI
THE LADY AND THE FLAGON
THE DUKE’S ALLOTMENT
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II
Footnote
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Anthony Hope
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“The law disgusts me. So does my experience of it. You remember the beer, Cromlech? Nobody ever acted more wisely or from better motives. And if I made money—as I did, till the customers left off coming—why not? I was unobtrusively doing good. Then Juanita’s affair! I acted as a gentleman is bound to act. Result—a year’s imprisonment! I lay stress on these personal experiences, but not too great stress. The law, Roger, always considers what you have had and what you now have—never what you ought to have. Take that path! It happens to be a fact that my grandfather, and my father, and I have always used that path. That’s important by law, I daresay——”
“Certainly, Lord Lynborough.”
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