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Cecil William Mercer. This Publican
This Publican
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THIS PUBLICAN
CHAPTER I. As Usual
CHAPTER II. Knave and Fool
CHAPTER III. Honeymoon
CHAPTER IV. Behind the Scenes
CHAPTER V. Consommation Obligatoire
CHAPTER VI. Hark to Persimmon
CHAPTER VII. The Deep End
CHAPTER VIII. Anticyclone
CHAPTER IX. News Reel
CHAPTER X. Snob
CHAPTER XI. Breaking-point
CHAPTER XII. Force Majeure
CHAPTER XIII. No Reply
CHAPTER XIV. Meet the Adair
CHAPTER XV. Stock-taking
CHAPTER XVI. Bohun v. Bohun and Leighton
CHAPTER XVII. Achilles’ Heel
CHAPTER XVIII. Harvest
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Cecil William Mercer
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In silence the two shook hands.
Forsyth would have spoken if he could have trusted his voice: but the moment which he had dreaded had taken him by the throat. A giant of his world was swaying: a time-honoured elm was toppling: a peerless, full-rigged ship was going down. He was looking upon an old master, whose period frame would be empty within the week, with whom he had been familiar for thirty years.
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