The Dinner Club (H. C. "Sapper" McNeile) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

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H. C. "Sapper" McNeile. The Dinner Club (H. C. "Sapper" McNeile) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

The Dinner Club, by “Sapper” (H. C. McNeile)

Foreword

CHAPTER I – The Actor’s Story, being The Patch on the Quilt

CHAPTER II – The Barrister’s Story, being The Decision of Sir Edward Shoreham

CHAPTER III – The Doctor’s Story, being Sentence of Death

CHAPTER IV – The Ordinary Man’s Story, being The Pipes of Death

CHAPTER V – The Soldier’s Story, being A Bit of Orange Peel

CHAPTER VI – The Writer’s Story, being The House at Appledore

CHAPTER VII – The Old Dining-Room

CHAPTER VIII – When Greek meets Greek

CHAPTER IX – Jimmy Lethbridge’s Temptation

CHAPTER X – Lady Cynthia and the Hermit

CHAPTER XI – A Glass of Whisky

CHAPTER XII – The Man Who Could Not Get Drunk

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And the only penalty of the club was that if the story was not of sufficient interest to keep the audience awake, the offending member should pay a sum of ten pounds to a deserving charity.

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“ ‘Then will you sit there.’ She took off her hat and coat as I sat down on the only available chair, and from underneath his pillow the man produced a paper-covered book.

“ ‘You’ll forgive me if I read my lines, Mr. Trayne,’ he said. ‘I find I can’t learn them—I can’t concentrate.’ He passed a thin, emaciated hand over his forehead. ‘And it’s her you want to see.’

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