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Emerson Hough. John Rawn, Prominent Citizen
John Rawn, Prominent Citizen
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I. CERTAIN NOTABLE DETAILS IN GENESIS
CHAPTER II. PURELY INCIDENTAL
CHAPTER III. IN VICTORY GENEROUS
CHAPTER IV. IN LOVE SUCCESSFUL
CHAPTER V. IN ADVERSITY TRIUMPHANT
CHAPTER VI. MR. RAWN ANNOUNCES HIS ARRIVAL
CHAPTER VII. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEN
CHAPTER VIII. POWER
CHAPTER IX. CHANGE IN KELLY ROW
CHAPTER X. THE WOODSHED IN KELLY ROW
CHAPTER XI. THE TEST
CHAPTER XII. THE HELPMEET
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER I. THE NEW MR. RAWN
CHAPTER II. GRAYSTONE HALL
CHAPTER III. THE COMPETENCIES OF MISS DELAWARE
CHAPTER IV. AT HEADQUARTERS
CHAPTER V. THEIR MASTER'S VOICE
CHAPTER VI. IN PROPER PERSON
CHAPTER VII. JOHN RAWN, PROMINENT CITIZEN
CHAPTER VIII. A PRINCELY GENEROSITY
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER I. THE EXTREME MONOGAMY OF MR. RAWN
CHAPTER II. ASPARAGUS, ALSO POTATOES
CHAPTER III. THE SILENT PARTNER
CHAPTER IV. THE BAKER'S DAUGHTER
BOOK FOUR
CHAPTER I. THE ROYAL PROGRESS OF MR. AND MRS. RAWN
CHAPTER II. FOUR BEING NO COMPANY
CHAPTER III. THE STEP-MOTHER-IN-LAW
CHAPTER IV. THE SECOND CURRENT
CHAPTER V. MEANS TO AN END
CHAPTER VI. AN INFORMAL MEETING
CHAPTER VII. THEY WHO SOW THE WIND
CHAPTER VIII. THEY WHO WATER WITH TEARS
CHAPTER IX. WHAT CHEER OF THE HARVEST?
CHAPTER X. THOSE WHO REAP THE WHIRLWIND
CHAPTER XI. THE MEANS—AND THE END
CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT JOHN RAWN
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Emerson Hough
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Yet all these things actually did occur. They could occur only in America; but this is America. They could occur only at the summons of a megalomaniac selfishness, an inordinate lust of power; but here were these, biding their time, in the seriously assured mind of an American man; a man after all born of his age and of his country, and representative of that country's typical ambition—the ambition for a material success.
The lust of power—that was it! The promise of power—that was what the small bird had sung in John Rawn's ear! The craving and coveting of power—that was what quivered in the marrow of his bones, that put ponderousness in his tread, that shone out of his eyes.
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