After the Manner of Men

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Lynde Francis. After the Manner of Men

After the Manner of Men

Table of Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

I. The Townlander

II. The Sow’s Ear

III. The Golden Youth

IV. In Which Carfax Enlists

V. Partly Sentimental

VI. Daddy Layne, and Others

VII. Company Come

VIII. The Stubborn Rock

IX. A Bad Night for Rucker

X. Blind Alleys

XI. Rosemary and Rue

XII. Dull Steel

XIII. The Burnt Child

XIV. The Logic of Fact

XV. Mammy Ann’s Grave

XVI. A Friend at Need

XVII. An Anticlimax

XVIII. Evolutionary

XIX. The Human Equation

XX. Limitations

XXI. The Clansmen

XXII. Out of a Clear Sky

XXIII. At Westwood House

XXIV. The Unknown Quantity

XXV. The Mangling of Poictiers

XXVI. Tryon’s News

XXVII. Cloud-Wraiths

XXVIII. The Ocoee’s Answer

XXIX. Beyond the Gap

XXX. A Grounded Wire

XXXI. On Pisgah’s Height

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Francis Lynde

Published by Good Press, 2022

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“Spare me!” laughed the victim. “You must remember that I am only a poor, ignorant provincial from Philadelphia, less than a fortnight out of the shell.”

“We are merely trying to impress you properly so that you will think twice before having us arrested for trespass and attempted assassination,” broke in the laughing markswoman. “We may not look it, but we are a majority of the faculty of Highmount College for Young Women. Let me present you to Madame Fortier, Modern Languages; to Miss Longstreet, Art; to Miss Farron, Assistant Mathematics; and to Professor William Wilberforce Hartridge, M.A., Vanderbilt, Higher Mathematics and the Natural Sciences.”

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