Toppleton's Client: or, A Spirit in Exile
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Bangs John Kendrick. Toppleton's Client: or, A Spirit in Exile
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON
CHAPTER II. MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON LEASES AN OFFICE
CHAPTER III. MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON ENCOUNTERS A WEARY SPIRIT
CHAPTER IV. THE WEARY SPIRIT GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
CHAPTER V. HOPKINS BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE WEARY SPIRIT
CHAPTER VI. THE SPIRIT UNFOLDS A HORRID TALE
CHAPTER VII. A CHAPTER OF PROFIT AND LOSS
CHAPTER VIII. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MAKING OF A NAME
CHAPTER IX. THE CROWNING ACT OF INFAMY
CHAPTER X. THE SPIRIT'S STORY IS CONCLUDED
CHAPTER XI. TOPPLETON CONSULTS THE LAW AND FORMS AN OPINION
CHAPTER XII. TOPPLETON MAKES A FAIR START
CHAPTER XIII. AT BARNCASTLE HALL
CHAPTER XIV. THE DINNER AND ITS RESULT
CHAPTER XV. BARNCASTLE CONFIDES IN HOPKINS
CHAPTER XVI. MR. HOPKINS TOPPLETON MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XVII. EPILOGUE
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It did not take Hopkins many days to discover that a life of elegant leisure in London approximates labour of the hardest sort. Nor was it entirely easy for him to spend his one thousand pounds a month, with lodgings for his headquarters. This fact annoyed him considerably, for he valued money only for what it could bring him, and yet how else to live than in lodgings he could not decide. Hotel life he abhorred, not only because he considered its excellence purely superficial, but also because it brought him in contact with what he called his "flash-light fellow countrymen, with Wagnerian voices and frontier manners" – by which I presume he meant the diamond studded individuals who travel on Cook's Tickets, and whose so-called Americanism is based on the notion that Britons are still weeping over the events of '76, and who love to send patriotic allusions to the star-spangled banner echoing down through the corridors of the hotels, out and along the Thames Embankment, to the very doors of parliament itself.
"Why don't you buy a house-boat?" asked one of his cronies, to whom he had confided his belief that luxurious ease was hard on the constitution. "Then you can run off up the Thames, and loaf away the tedious hours of your leisure."
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"Nothing seems, something is the matter," returned Hopkins. "I don't wonder you stammer. You'd stammer worse if you had been here with me three minutes ago. Stubbs, I believe this room is haunted!"
Mr. Stubbs's efforts at surprise at this point were painful to witness.
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