The Man Who Rose Again
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Hocking Joseph. The Man Who Rose Again
CHAPTER I. A CYNIC'S CHALLENGE
CHAPTER II. THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
CHAPTER III. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN MEET
CHAPTER IV. A DOUBLE PERSONALITY
CHAPTER V. THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CHAIN
CHAPTER VI. LEICESTER'S WOOING
CHAPTER VII. A WOMAN'S HEART
CHAPTER VIII. THE FOUR MEN MEET AGAIN
CHAPTER IX. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING
CHAPTER X. THE WEDDING-DAY
CHAPTER XI. LEICESTER AND WINFIELD
CHAPTER XII. THE LAST LINK BROKEN
CHAPTER XIII. DEGRADATION
CHAPTER XIV. LEICESTER'S FAREWELL TO TAVITON
CHAPTER XV. THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN
CHAPTER XVI. A GRIM JOKE
CHAPTER XVII. HOW OLIVE RECEIVED THE NEWS
CHAPTER XVIII. OLIVE'S LIFE IN DEVONSHIRE
CHAPTER XIX. THE MAN WITH THE FEZ
CHAPTER XX. HERBERT BRIARFIELD AND THE STRANGER
CHAPTER XXI. A GAME OF GOLF – A GAME OF LIFE
CHAPTER XXII. SIGNOR RICORDO AND OLIVE
CHAPTER XXIII. SPRAGUE'S EXPLANATION
CHAPTER XXIV. RICORDO'S REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER XXV. THE COMING OF WINFIELD
CHAPTER XXVI. REVELATIONS
CHAPTER XXVII. RICORDO'S WOOING
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN
CHAPTER XXIX. GOD AND THE MAN
CHAPTER XXX. THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN
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For a minute there was a silence. In spite of the fact that Radford Leicester had instilled his own spirit into the party, there was something in his cynicism that repelled them as well as fascinated them. They were not bad young men. Not that they had high ideals, or were filled with lofty enthusiasms. But they had been reared on conventional lines, and although neither of them would have admitted it, they were influenced by the conventions which had surrounded their lives. To them there was something sordid, something repellent, in the thought of a man coolly offering to marry any one in order that he might prove the truth of a cynical statement to which he had given utterance. Nevertheless, they longed to accept his challenge. Radford Leicester's spirit possessed them; the man's cool and confident cynicism attracted them. The very daring of the proposal broke down their conventional ideas. Besides, in spite of Leicester's confidence, they did not believe that his opinions were true. Especially was this true of Purvis and Sprague. They had proposed to Miss Olive Castlemaine and had been refused. Other very eligible young men had also suffered the same fate. Was it likely, then, that Leicester, whose reputation was so peculiar, would be more fortunate than they?
More than all this, both of them felt somewhat bitter towards the woman who had refused them, and although they would not confess it even to themselves, they would rejoice if she should suffer something of the humiliation which they had felt. Such a feeling is natural to weak men. The sting of disappointment made them eager to fasten on anything which promised them a kind of revenge. They had a feeling that Miss Castlemaine was proud of her conquests, and they would rejoice if her pride could be humbled.
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