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Theodore Winthrop. Mr. Waddy's Return
Mr. Waddy's Return
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CHAPTER I. A REMARKABLE EPISODE, HITHERTO UNRECORDED, IN THE VOYAGE OF THE “MAYFLOWER”
CHAPTER II. THE WADDYS OF DULLISH COURT, FROM WHITEGIFT. TO OUR HERO
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH MR. WADDY REACHES HALIFAX AND. MEETS WITH A MISADVENTURE
CHAPTER IV. A GENTLE LADY OF FORTUNE DECIDES TO FACE A. STORM
CHAPTER V. A WRECK AND A RESCUE
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH MISS SULLIVAN FINDS MANY REASONS. FOR DEPARTURE
CHAPTER VII. A PEPPERY INVALID WHO DREAMS DREAMS AND. BRINGS BAD NEWS
CHAPTER VIII. MR. WADDY MUSES UPON FATE AND UNDERTAKES. A COMMISSION
CHAPTER IX. THE NABOB RE-ENTERS CIVILISATION
CHAPTER X. OUR HERO RENEWS HIS YOUTH IN THE WARMTH. OF AN OLD FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XI. IN WHICH THE READER IS ALLOWED TO WORSHIP. AT THE SHRINE
CHAPTER XII. THE PARABLE OF A HUMBLE BEAST OF BURDEN AND. OF LILIES THAT TOIL NOT
CHAPTER XIII. THE READER IS PRESENTED TO TWO CHARMING GIRLS, AND SO IS MAJOR GRANBY
CHAPTER XIV. PROTECTIVE SCANDALS AND OTHER DIVERTING HUMOURS. OF A FASHIONABLE WATERING-PLACE
CHAPTER XV. MR. WADDY RECEIVES A LETTER AND GETS OUT HIS. PISTOLS
CHAPTER XVI. IN WHICH MR. HORACE BELDEN PROSPERS CERTAIN. PLANS
CHAPTER XVII. MR. BELDEN CONTEMPLATES VILLAINIES, NEW AND OLD
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BRAVE PREPARE FOR A RACE, THE FAIR FOR A. PICNIC
CHAPTER XIX. MISS CENTER’S BIRTHDAY PARTY AND WHAT OCCURRED. THEREAT
CHAPTER XX. CHIN CHIN AND PETER SKERRETT SEIZE THE FORELOCK. OF OPPORTUNITY
CHAPTER XXI. THE STORY OF DIANA AND ENDYMION
CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH MR. BELDEN REACHES THE END. OF HIS ROPE
CHAPTER XXIII. A VOYAGE OF UNKNOWN LENGTH
CHAPTER XXIV. MR. WADDY ACCOMPLISHES HIS RETURN
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Theodore Winthrop
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Don’t cry, my boy,” said Mr. Waddy, and putting his hand into a pocket he thought his own, he drew out not the expected purse containing the presentable shilling, but a strip of pigtail tobacco. “Am I brown? I am the Ancient Mariner. I have been where the sun bakes men as brown as that loaf of gingerbread. Here are two shillings out of my vest pocket. Keep one yourself and buy that loaf from your mother with the other. My mother used to bake gingerbread and my father sold it, years ago, when I was white, not ginger-coloured.”
So Ira and Sammy came to terms of peace and good will and munched together.
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