The Jervaise Comedy

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J. D. Beresford. The Jervaise Comedy

The Jervaise Comedy

Table of Contents

CHAPTER

The Jervaise Comedy

I

The First Hour

II

Anne

III

Frank Jervaise

IV

In the Hall

V

Daybreak

VI

Morning

VII

Notes and Queries

VIII

The Outcast

IX

Banks

X

The Home Farm

XI

The Story

XII

Conversion

XIII

Farmer Banks

XIV

Mrs. Banks

XV

Remembrance

Postscript

The True Story

The End

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J. D. Beresford

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“Oh! don’t for God’s sake play the fool,” he said brutally.

A spasm of resentment shook me for a moment. I felt annoyed, remembering how at school he would await his opportunity and then score off me with some insulting criticism. He had never had any kind of sympathy for the whimsical, and it is a manner that is apt to look inane and ridiculous under certain kinds of censure. I swallowed my annoyance, on this occasion. I remembered that Jervaise had a reasonable excuse, for once.

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