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Bramah Ernest. The Secret of the League
The Secret of the League
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
IRENE
CHAPTER II
THE PERIOD, AND THE COMING OF WINGS
CHAPTER III
THE MILLION TO ONE CHANCE
Position of Parties at the Dissolution
Party Gains
Position of Parties in the New Parliament
(The above returns do not include the Orkney and Shetland Islands.)
CHAPTER IV
THE COMPACT
CHAPTER V
THE DOWNTRODDEN
CHAPTER VI
MISS LISLE TELLS A LONG POINTLESS STORY
CHAPTER VII
"SCHEDULE B"
CHAPTER VIII
TANTROY EARNS HIS WAGE
CHAPTER IX
SECRET HISTORY
CHAPTER X
THE ORDER OF ST MARTIN OF TOURS
CHAPTER XI
MAN BETWEEN TWO MASTERS
CHAPTER XII
BY TELESCRIBE
"THE UNITY LEAGUE
CHAPTER XIII
THE EFFECT OF THE BOMB
THE INDUSTRIAL WAR IN FRANCE. Prohibitive Tax on Coal
CHAPTER XIV
THE LAST CHANCE AND THE COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCE
COAL WAR
CHAPTER XV
THE GREAT FIASCO
CHAPTER XVI
THE DARK WINTER
CHAPTER XVII
THE INCIDENT OF THE 13TH OF JANUARY
CHAPTER XVIII
THE MUSIC AND THE DANCE
CHAPTER XIX
THE "FINIS" MESSAGE
CHAPTER XX
STOBALT OF SALAVEIRA
CHAPTER XXI
THE BARGAIN OF FAMINE
CHAPTER XXII
"POOR ENGLAND."
THE END
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Ernest Bramah
The Story of a Social War
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"I have no particular convictions," one prominent citizen remarked, "but in view of the existing railway facilities it is worth while considering whether we shall have any visitors at all this season if we stand in the way of families flying down together." The humour of the age was flowing mordaciously, even as the wit of France had done little more than a century before. The readiest jests carried a tang, whether turning upon personal poverty, municipal extravagance, or national incapacity. Opinion being evenly divided, the local rate of seventeen shillings in the pound influenced the casting vote in favour of mixed flying. There were necessary preparations, including a captive balloon in which an ancient mariner, decked out with a pair of wings like a superannuated Cupid, was posted to render assistance to the faltering. The rates at once rose to seventeen shillings and sixpence, but the principle of the enterprise was admitted to be sound.
So on this pleasant summer afternoon—an ideal day for a fly, said every one—the heights above the old town were echoing to the ceaseless gaiety of the watching crowd, for alatics had not yet ceased to be a novelty, while the air above was cleft by a hundred pairs of beating wings.
