The Gods and Mr. Perrin

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Hugh Walpole. The Gods and Mr. Perrin

CHAPTER I—MR. VINCENT PERRIN DRINKS HIS TEA AND GIVES MR. TRAILL SOUND ADVICE

CHAPTER II—INTRODUCES A CONFUSING COMPANY OF PERSONS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON MRS. COMBER

CHAPTER III—CONCERNS ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN BETWEEN SOUP AND DESSERT

CHAPTER IV—BIRKLAND LOQUITUR

CHAPTER V—A GAME OF FOOTBALL AND A DANCE IN PENDRAGON HAVE THEIR PART IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS

CHAPTER VI—SÆVA INDIGNATIO

CHAPTER VII—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; THEY OPEN FIRE

CHAPTER VIII—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; CAMPS ARE FORMED—ALSO SOME SKIRMISHING

CHAPTER IX—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; WITH THE LADIES

CHAPTER X—THE BATTLE OF THE UMBRELLA; “WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY....”

CHAPTER XI—MR. PERRIN SEES DOUBLE

CHAPTER XII—MR. PERRIN WALKS IN SLEEP

CHAPTER XIII—MR. PERRIN LISTENS WHILE THEY ALL MAKE SPEECHES

CHAPTER XIV—MR. PERRIN REACHES THE HEART OF HIS KINGDOM

CHAPTER XV—THE GOLDEN VIEW

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My Dear Punch,

There are a thousand and one reasons why I should dedicate this book to you. It would take a very long time and much good paper to give you them all; but here, at any rate, is one of them. Do you remember a summer day last year that we spent together? The place was a little French town, and we climbed its high, crooked street, and had tea in an inn at the top—an inn with a square courtyard, bad, impossible tea, and a large black cat.

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Perrin stared at the agitated crowd for some moments without saying anything. The boys were herded together like cattle, and were staring at him with eyes that started from their round, close-cropped heads. Perrin took their names down. Then he talked to them for three minutes about discipline, decency, and decorum; then he reminded them of their mothers, and finally said a word about serving their country.

Then he passed on to the subject of pocket-money. “It will be safer for you to hand it over to me,” he said slowly and impressively. “Then you shall have it when you want it.”

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