A Change of Air

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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