Mrs. Maxon Protests
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Hope Anthony. Mrs. Maxon Protests
CHAPTER I "INKPAT!"
CHAPTER II. A CASE OF NECESSITY
CHAPTER III 'IN SOLUTION'
CHAPTER IV. KEEPING A PROMISE
CHAPTER V. THE GREAT ALLIES
CHAPTER VI. FRUIT OF THE TREE
CHAPTER VII. A CODE AND A THEORY
CHAPTER VIII. SUBVERSIVE
CHAPTER IX. NO PROCEEDINGS!
CHAPTER X. MAUVE ENVELOPES
CHAPTER XI. AN UNMENTIONED NAME
CHAPTER XII. CHRISTMAS IN WOBURN SQUARE
CHAPTER XIII. CHRISTMAS AT SHAYLOR'S PATCH
CHAPTER XIV. A COUNSEL OF PERFECTION
CHAPTER XV. MRS. NOBODY
CHAPTER XVI. A WORD TAKEN AT PLEASURE
CHAPTER XVII. THE TRACK OF THE RAIDER
CHAPTER XVIII. NOTHING SERIOUS
CHAPTER XIX. A POINT OF HONOUR
CHAPTER XX. AN HEROIC OFFER
CHAPTER XXI. IS HE A BULLY?
CHAPTER XXII. JUDGMENT ACCORDINGLY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE REGIMENT
CHAPTER XXIV. AN ENLIGHTENMENT
CHAPTER XXV "PERHAPS!"
CHAPTER XXVI. A FRIEND DEPARTS
CHAPTER XXVII. A PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECT
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE VIEW FROM A HOUSE
CHAPTER XXIX. IN THE RESULT
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Mrs. Maxon's memory of the evening on which she administered to her husband his "awful facer" was capricious. It preserved as much of the preliminary and the accidental as of the real gist of the matter. They dined out at the house of a learned judge. The party was exclusively legal, but the conversation of the young barrister who fell to her lot did not partake of that complexion. Fortune used him in the cause of irony. Much struck by his companion's charms – she was strung up, looked well, and talked with an unusual animation – and by no means imputing to himself any deficiency in the same direction, he made play with a pair of fine dark eyes, descanted jocularly on the loneliness of a bachelor's life, and ventured sly allusions to Mr. Cyril Maxon's blessed lot.
"I hope he knows his luck!" said the young barrister. Well, he would know it soon, at all events, Winnie reflected.
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"Those are modern views, I suppose? Old-fashioned folk would call them suggestions of the Devil. But we've had this sort of discussion several times before. Why go over it again? We must agree to differ."
"If you would! But you don't, you can't, you never will. You say that to-night. You'll begin drilling me to your march and cutting me to your pattern again to-morrow morning."
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