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John Jeffery Farnol. The Glad Summer
The Glad Summer
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. Tells of Their First, and Very Unpropitious, Meeting
CHAPTER II. Tells How Harbourne Came to Harbourne
CHAPTER III. Tells Why a Certain Letter was Written
CHAPTER IV. Which Concerns this Same Letter
CHAPTER V. Being Merely a Chapter of Business
CHAPTER VI. How Sir Nicholas Became a Handyman and Met a Small Though Important Personage
‘I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, and know full well, I—do—not like thee, Doctor Fell.’ ”
CHAPTER VII. Concerning Hobnailed Boots and the Magic of Cards
CHAPTER VIII. How Nicholas Glimpsed the Shadow Again—with the Reason Therefor
CHAPTER IX. Of Brutality and a Bull
CHAPTER X. Chiefly Concerning a Butler of Price, though Priceless
CHAPTER XI. How (According to Joanne) Not to Make Love
CHAPTER XII. Diamond v. Paste
CHAPTER XIII. How Lord Wolverton Wrote a Letter, and Why
“—Club London
“Dear Miss Marsden,
“To Sir Nicholas Harbourne
CHAPTER XIV. How a Letter was Burnt and Priscilla’s Woe Turned to Joy
CHAPTER XV. In which Aunt Jemima Wonders
‘Oh mistress mine, where are you roaming? Oh stay and hear, your true love’s coming, That can sing both high and low; Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journey’s end in lover’s meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know!’
So, mistress mine, most pretty sweeting, good night; may angels guard thy gentle slumber. Now, Bill, the pigsties!”
CHAPTER XVI. In Which Priscilla Pours Out Tea
CHAPTER XVII. Gives Some Description of a Kiss
CHAPTER XVIII. Tells How Nicholas Met an Old Shipmate
“To Messrs. Biggs, Dyke and Biggs “Gent:
CHAPTER XIX. In Which Nicholas, Building Pigsties, Versifies
CHAPTER XX. Concerning the Beauties in Haymaking
“ ‘Wot’s to be done wi’ the drunken man now? Wot’s to be done wi’ this drunken chap, now? Wot’s to be done wi’ this drunken lord, now? Er-lie in the mornin’?’
Ho, Bill, gimme a hand wi’ this gig.... So it’s ‘Wey-hey hup she rises, Wey-hey hup she rises, Wey-hey hup she rises, Er-lie in the mornin’.’ ”
CHAPTER XXI. How the “Splendorious” Idea Inspired Action
“Oh Mistress Mine, of beauty rare, With sunset tangled in thy hair, This should my light and beacon be, Through every shoal safe-guiding me, Through death itself, until——”
Here indeed Death, it seemed, smote at him, so that he would have fallen but for the stile whereto he clung instinctively, being for the moment blinded, half-stunned and perfectly helpless
CHAPTER XXII. The Wherefore of Bill’s Black Eye
CHAPTER XXIII. Harvest
CHAPTER XXIV. Describes a Hate-filled Letter
“My poor, deluded Joanne,
“P.S. You may show him this letter, and should he then desire a gentlemanly meeting, I will honour him by exchanging shots on Calais Sands whenever he chooses to die.”
CHAPTER XXV. Tells How She Asked Questions and He Tried to Answer
CHAPTER XXVI. Describes a “Splendorious” Tea-Party and the Comforting Wisdom of an Aunt
CHAPTER XXVII. How Aunt Jemima Rose to the Occasion
CHAPTER XXVIII. Which, Though the last Chapter, is not Quite so Sentimental as Might be Expected
