A Great Man: A Frolic
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Arnold Bennett. A Great Man: A Frolic
CHAPTER I. HIS BIRTH
CHAPTER II. TOM
CHAPTER III. HIS CHRISTENING
CHAPTER IV. AGED TWELVE
CHAPTER V. MARRONS GLACÉS
CHAPTER VI. A CALAMITY FOR THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER VII. CONTAGIOUS
CHAPTER VIII. CREATIVE
CHAPTER IX. SPRING ONIONS
CHAPTER X. MARK SNYDER
CHAPTER XI. SATIN
CHAPTER XII. HIS FAME
CHAPTER XIII. A LION IN HIS LAIR
CHAPTER XIV. HER NAME WAS GERALDINE
CHAPTER XV. HIS TERRIBLE QUANDARY
CHAPTER XVI. DURING THE TEA-MEETING
CHAPTER XVII. A NOVELIST IN A BOX
CHAPTER XVIII. HIS JACK-HORNERISM
CHAPTER XIX. HE JUSTIFIES HIS FATHER
CHAPTER XX. PRESS AND PUBLIC
CHAPTER XXI. PLAYING THE NEW GAME
CHAPTER XXII. HE LEARNS MORE ABOUT WOMEN
CHAPTER XXIII. SEPARATION
CHAPTER XXIV. COSETTE
CHAPTER XXV. THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XXVII. HE IS NOT NERVOUS
CHAPTER XXVIII. HE SHORTENS HIS NAME
CHAPTER XXIX. THE PRESIDENT
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In the attic a child of seven years was sitting up in a cot placed by the side of his dear Aunt Annie's bed. He had an extremely intelligent, inquisitorial, and agnostical face, and a fair, curled head of hair, which he scratched with one hand as Aunt Annie entered the room and held the candle on high in order to survey him.
'Well?' inquired Aunt Annie firmly.
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Persons who called on Mr. Henry Knight in his private capacity rang at the side-door to the right of the shop, and were instructed by the shop-caretaker to mount two flights of stairs, having mounted which they would perceive in front of them a door, where they were to ring again. This door was usually closed, but to-night Tom found it ajar. He peeped out and downwards, and thought of the vast showroom below and the wonderful regions of the street. Then he drew in his head, and concealed himself behind the plush portière. From his hiding-place he could watch the door of Uncle Henry's and Aunt Susan's bedroom, and he could also, whenever he felt inclined, glance down the stairway.
He waited, with the patience and the fatalism of infancy, for something to happen.
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