Tales of two people

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Hope Anthony. Tales of two people

HELENA’S PATH

CHAPTER I. AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH

CHAPTER II. LARGELY TOPOGRAPHICAL

CHAPTER III. OF LAW AND NATURAL RIGHTS

CHAPTER IV. THE MESSAGE OF A PADLOCK

CHAPTER V. THE BEGINNING OF WAR

CHAPTER VI. EXERCISE BEFORE BREAKFAST

CHAPTER VII. ANOTHER WEDGE!

CHAPTER VIII. THE MARCHESA MOVES

CHAPTER IX. LYNBOROUGH DROPS A CATCH

CHAPTER X. IN THE LAST RESORT!

CHAPTER XI. AN ARMISTICE

CHAPTER XII. AN EMBASSAGE

CHAPTER XIII. THE FEAST OF ST JOHN BAPTIST

MRS THISTLETON’S PRINCESS

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THE NECESSARY RESOURCES

MISS GLADWIN’S CHANCE

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THE PRINCE CONSORT

WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF MISS CONSTANTINE

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SLIM-FINGERED JIM

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THE GREY FROCK

FOREORDAINED

PRUDENCE AND THE BISHOP

THE OPENED DOOR

LOVE’S LOGIC1

LA MORT À LA MODE2

THE RIDDLE OF COUNTESS RUNA

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THE LADY AND THE FLAGON

THE DUKE’S ALLOTMENT

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COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual.

So much for common opinion. Let no more be heard of its dull utilitarian judgments! There are plenty of eminent men – at the moment, it is believed, no less than seventy Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers (or thereabouts) – to say nothing of Bishops, Judges, and the British Academy – and all this in a nook of the world! (And the world too is a point!) Lynborough was something much more uncommon; it is not, however, quite easy to say what. Let the question be postponed; perhaps the story itself will answer it.

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“What does the man mean by that?” asked Wilbraham scornfully. “It’s a purely legal question – Lynborough must trouble about it.” He rose and addressed Stabb somewhat as though that gentleman were the Court. “Not a public right of way? We don’t argue that? Then it’s a case of dominant and servient tenement – a right of way by user as of right, or by a lost grant. That – or nothing!”

“I daresay,” muttered Stabb very absently.

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