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Percival Christopher Wren. The Wages of Virtue
The Wages of Virtue
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
THE WAGES OF VIRTUE
CHAPTER I
SOAP AND SIR MONTAGUE MERLINE
CHAPTER II
A BARRACK-ROOM OF THE LEGION
CHAPTER III
CARMELITA ET CIE
CHAPTER IV
THE CANTEEN OF THE LEGION
CHAPTER V
THE TRIVIAL ROUND
CHAPTER VI
LE CAFARD AND OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER VII
THE SHEEP IN WOLF'S CLOTHING
CHAPTER VIII
THE TEMPTATION OF SIR MONTAGUE MERLINE
CHAPTER IX
THE CAFÉ AND THE CANTEEN
CHAPTER X
THE WAGES OF SIN
CHAPTER XI
GREATER LOVE …
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Percival Christopher Wren
Published by Good Press, 2020
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"Not a bit of it, man," was the reply, "he's as alive as you or I. He's dumb, and he's dotty, but he's alive all right. … What's wrong with you? You've got a touch of the sun … " and then Captain Strong was himself again. If Captain Sir Montague Merline, late of the Queen's African Rifles, were alive, it should not be Jack Strong who would announce the fact. …
Monty Merline?… Was that vacant-looking person who was rising from a chair and bowing to him, his old pal Merline? … Most undoubtedly it was. Besides--there on his wrist and forearm was the wonderfully-tattooed snake. …
