A Change of Air
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Hope Anthony. A Change of Air
"ANTHONY HOPE."
CHAPTER I. A Mission to the Heathen
CHAPTER II. The New Man at Littlehill
CHAPTER III. Denborough Determines to Call
CHAPTER IV. A Quiet Sunday Afternoon
CHAPTER V. The Necessary Scapegoat
CHAPTER VI. Littlehill Goes into Society
CHAPTER VII "To a Pretty Saint."
CHAPTER VIII. An Indiscreet Disciple
CHAPTER IX. Dale's Own Opinion
CHAPTER X. A Prejudiced Verdict
CHAPTER XI. A Fable about Birds
CHAPTER XII. A Dedication – and a Desecration
CHAPTER XIII. The Responsibilities of Genius
CHAPTER XIV. Mr. Delane Likes the Idea
CHAPTER XV. How It Seemed to the Doctor
CHAPTER XVI "No More Kings."
CHAPTER XVII. Dale tries His Hand at an Ode
CHAPTER XVIII. Delilah Johnstone
CHAPTER XIX. A Well-Paid Poem
CHAPTER XX. An Evening's End
CHAPTER XXI "The Other Girl Did."
CHAPTER XXII. The Fitness of Things
CHAPTER XXIII. A Morbid Scruple
CHAPTER XXIV. The Heroine of the Incident
CHAPTER XXV. The Scene of the Outrage
CHAPTER XXVI. Against her Better Judgment
CHAPTER XXVII. A Villain Unmasked
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Vision
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When the Great King, that mirror of a majesty whereof modern times have robbed the world, recoiled aghast from the threatened indignity of having to wait, he laid his finger with a true touch on a characteristic incident of the lot of common men, from which it was seemly that the state of God's Vicegerents should be free. It was a small matter, no doubt, a thing of manners merely, and etiquette; yet manners and etiquette are first the shadowed expression of facts and then the survival of them; the reverence once paid to power, and now accorded, in a strange mixture of chivalry and calculation, to mere place whence power has fled. The day of vicegerents is gone, and the day of officers has come; and it is not unknown that officers should have to wait, or even – such is the insolence, no longer of office, but of those who give it – should altogether go without. Yet, although everybody has now to wait, everybody has not to wait the same length of time. For example, a genius needs not wait so long for what he wants as a fool – unless, as chances now and then, he be both a genius and a fool, when probably his waiting will be utterly without end.
In a small flat in Chelsea, very high toward heaven, there sat one evening in the summer, two young men and a genius; and the younger of the young men, whose name was Arthur Angell, said discontentedly to the genius:
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"Oh, he isn't always shooting or hunting, of course," said Tora contemptuously.
"I don't suppose," remarked Janet, "that in his position of life, – well, you know, Tora, he's of quite humble birth, – he ever had the chance."
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