The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream

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L. P. Gratacap. The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream

The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream

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CHAPTER I. IN WASHINGTON, APRIL, 1909

CHAPTER II. THE LECTURE

CHAPTER III. BALTIMORE, MAY 29, 1909

THE STORY IN DETAIL

LATER ADVICES

CHAPTER IV. GETTYSBURG, MAY 30TH, 1909

CHAPTER V. THE EVICTION OF SCOTLAND

CHAPTER VI. THE TERROR OF IT

CHAPTER VII. IN LONDON, FEBRUARY, 1910

CHAPTER VIII. THE EVACUATION

CHAPTER IX. THE SPECTACLE

CHAPTER X. ADDENDUM

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L. P. Gratacap

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Mr. Leacraft had met Sally under circumstances the most provocative of admiration. In her own home; where the sincerity of hospitality and the urgency of an American’s deference to the best instincts of courtesy, did not altogether mitigate her coquetry and mirthful affectations, and even, by the faintest gloss of repression, made them the more delicious. The Englishman was bewitched, and his infatuation declared itself so plainly that Sally—whose heart was quite untouched by his distress—tried the resources of her ingenuity to avoid meeting him alone.

Leacraft, on the morrow of the day, whose close had so deeply inducted him into a study of American politics, expected to make a deferred visit to the Garretts at Baltimore, and he had quite firmly resolved that he would reveal his desperate extremity to Sally, and plead his best to show her how empty life would be to him without her, and that it would be shockingly obdurate in her to decline to regard him as the goal of her marital ambitions.

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