The Green Mouse

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Chambers Robert William. The Green Mouse

PREFACE

I. AN IDYL OF THE IDYL

II. THE IDLER

III. THE GREEN MOUSE

IV. AN IDEAL IDOL

V. SACHARISSA

VI. IN WRONG

VII. THE INVISIBLE WIRE

VIII "IN HEAVEN AND EARTH"

IX. A CROSS-TOWN CAR

X. THE LID OFF

XI. BETTY

XII. SYBILLA

XIII. THE CROWN PRINCE

XIV. GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS

XV. DRUSILLA

XVI. FLAVILLA

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To the literary, literal, and scientific mind purposeless fiction is abhorrent. Fortunately we all are literally and scientifically inclined; the doom of purposeless fiction is sounded; and it is a great comfort to believe that, in the near future, only literary and scientific works suitable for man, woman, child, and suffragette, are to adorn the lingerie-laden counters in our great department shops.

It is, then, with animation and confidence that the author politely offers to a regenerated nation this modern, moral, literary, and highly scientific work, thinly but ineffectually disguised as fiction, in deference to the prejudices of a few old-fashioned story-readers who still survive among us.

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"Those squirrels are very tame," she observed calmly.

"Not always," he said. "Try to hold this one, for example."

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