The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)
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Lever Charles James. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)
CHAPTER I. MR. HERMAN MERL
CHAPTER II. MR. MERL
CHAPTER III. A YOUNG DUCHESS AND AN OLD FRIEND
CHAPTER IV. A VERY GREAT FAVOR
CHAPTER V. A LETTER FROM HOME
CHAPTER VI. MR. MERL’S DEPARTURE
CHAPTER VII. THE CLUB
CHAPTER VIII. AN EVENING OF ONE OP THE “THREE DAYS”
CHAPTER IX. SOME CONFESSIONS OF JACK MASSINGBRED
CHAPTER X. HOW ROGUES AGREE!
CHAPTER XI. MR. MERL “AT FENCE”
CHAPTER XII. MR. MERL’S MEDITATIONS
CHAPTER XIII. A NIGHT OF STORM
CHAPTER XIV. THE END OF A BAR MESS
CHAPTER XV. A FIRST BRIEF
CHAPTER XVI. MR. REPTON LOOKS IN
CHAPTER XVII. LADY DOROTHEA’S LETTER
CHAPTER XVIII. MR. MERL’S EXPERIENCES IN THE WEST
CHAPTER XIX. MR. MERL’S “LAST” IRISH IMPRESSION
CHAPTER XX. SOMETHING NOT EXACTLY FLIRTATION
CHAPTER XXI. LADY DOROTHEA
CHAPTER XXII. HOW PRIDE MEETS PRIDE
CHAPTER XXIII. MAURICE SCANLAN ADVISES WITH “HIS COUNSEL”
CHAPTER XXIV. A CONSULTATION
CHAPTER XXV. A COMPROMISE
CHAPTER XXVI. A LETTER THAT NEVER REACHES ITS ADDRESS
CHAPTER XXVII. A VERY BRIEF INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DARK SIDE OF A CHARACTER
CHAPTER XXIX. THE COTTAGE
CHAPTER XXX. “A TEA-PARTY” AT MRS. CRONAN’S
CHAPTER XXXI. THE BRANNOCK ISLANDS
CHAPTER XXXII. LETTER FROM MASSINGBRED
CHAPTER XXXIII. A DINNER AT “THE LODGE”
CHAPTER XXXIV. AN HONORED GUEST
CHAPTER XXXV. HOW DIPLOMACY FAILED
CHAPTER XXXVI. A GREAT DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXVII. A DARK DAY
CHAPTER XXXVIII. REPTON’S LAST CAUSE
CHAPTER XXXIX. TOWARDS THE END
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The French have invented a slang word for a quality that deserves a more recognized epithet, and by the expression chic have designated a certain property by which objects assert their undoubted superiority over all their counterfeits. Thus, your coat from Nugee’s, your carriage from Leader’s, your bracelet from Storr’s, and your bonnet from Madame Palmyre, have all their own peculiar chic, or, in other words, possess a certain invisible, indescribable essence that stamps them as the best of their kind, with an excellence unattainable by imitation, and a charm all their own!
Of all the products in which this magical property insinuates itself, there is not one to which it contributes so much as the man of fashion. He is the very type of chic. To describe him you are driven to a catalogue of negatives, and you only arrive at anything like a resemblance by an enumeration of the different things he is not.
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“Poor Jack!” muttered Cavendish, “how hard up he must be!”
“But you like the equipage, Merl?” said Martin, who had a secret suspicion that it was now Cavendish’s turn for a little humiliation.
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