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Julian Stafford Corbett. Kophetua the Thirteenth
Kophetua the Thirteenth
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ONEIRIA
CHAPTER II. HIS MAJESTY
CHAPTER III. THE MARRIAGE QUESTION
CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN-MOTHER
CHAPTER V. MADEMOISELLE DE TRICOTRIN
CHAPTER VI. THE KING'S COUNCILLORS
CHAPTER VII. THE LIBERTIES OF ST. LAZARUS
CHAPTER VIII. ESCAPE, BUT NOT LIBERTY
CHAPTER IX. IN THE QUEEN'S GARDEN
CHAPTER X. THE FALL OF TURBO
CHAPTER XI. OPENING THE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XII. A DECISIVE ACTION
CHAPTER XIII. MISTRESS AND MAID
CHAPTER XIV. "MORIBUNDUS AMOR."
CHAPTER XV. TWO VICTIMS
CHAPTER XVI. A NIGHT MARCH
CHAPTER XVII. "CHECK!"
CHAPTER XVIII. THE QUEEN'S MOVE
CHAPTER XIX. CONSPIRATORS
CHAPTER XX. PLAYERS
CHAPTER XXI. HUNTER AND HUNTED
CHAPTER XXII. HERMITS
CHAPTER XXIII. AN OFFICIAL REPORT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE SACRIFICE OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXV. THE CROWN OF KISSES
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Julian Stafford Corbett
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The system can only be described as chaotic. Every trace of the original landmarks had disappeared, and yet a good Kallist would rather be called anything than an Agathist, unless perhaps it were a Kallikagathist. An Agathist regarded a Kallist as a frivolous person of low moral tone, while, in the eyes of a Kallist, an Agathist was a detestable outcome of the Puritan taint in the old settlers, a shallow pretender to an impossible standard of virtue. A Kallist who could invent a new way of saying an Agathist was a prig became a marked personality in the House, while a young Agathist who succeeded in inventing a fresh figure to express his contempt for a cynic might at once pose as a coming man.
Cynicism was certainly the prevailing tone of the Kallist salons. There you might hear of a young girl who had hurried for an hour's relaxation from the sickbed of a brother, or a genial old gentleman who had spent his day in extricating a poor relation from a debtor's prison, giving it as their perfected conviction that no excellence could be credited with existence which you could not see. On the other hand, the atmosphere of Agathist gatherings was decidedly one of moral platitude, where elaborately dressed men and daintily rouged women prattled in polished phrase of the nothingness of exteriors, and the all-sufficiency of truth and goodness. It is certainly remarkable that a similar condition of society has appeared nowhere else, and it is these unique politico-social phenomena which constitute Oneiria's chief claim to find an adequate historian.
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