The Younger Set

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Robert W. Chambers. The Younger Set

The Younger Set

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

HIS OWN PEOPLE

CHAPTER II

A DREAM ENDS

CHAPTER III

UNDER THE ASHES

CHAPTER IV

MID-LENT

CHAPTER V

AFTERGLOW

CHAPTER VI

THE UNEXPECTED

CHAPTER VII

ERRANDS AND LETTERS

CHAPTER VIII

SILVERSIDE

CHAPTER IX

A NOVICE

CHAPTER X

LEX NON SCRIPTA

CHAPTER XI

HIS OWN WAY

CHAPTER XII

HER WAY

ARS AMORIS

THE END

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Robert W. Chambers

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Then Selwyn came. She had already learned something of the world's customs and manners before his advent; she had learned more since his advent; and she was learning something else, too—to understand how happily ignorant of many matters she had been, had better be, and had best remain. And she harboured no malsane desire to know more than was necessary, and every innocent instinct to preserve her ignorance intact as long as the world permitted.

As for the man riding there at her side, his problem was simple enough as he summed it up: to face the world, however it might chance to spin, that small, ridiculous, haphazard world rattling like a rickety roulette ball among the numbered nights and days where he had no longer any vital stake at hazard—no longer any chance to win or lose.

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