The Hypocrite

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Thorne Guy. The Hypocrite

CHAPTER I. YARDLY GOBION OPENS HIS LETTERS

CHAPTER II. SCOTT IS LONELY

CHAPTER III. INITIATION

CHAPTER IV. THE CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER V. A PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT

CHAPTER VI. THE COUP

CHAPTER VII. THE CONSOLATIONS OF MRS. EBBAGE; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE REV. PETER BELPER

CHAPTER VIII. THE FINAL POSE

CHAPTER IX. TWENTY YEARS AFTER. AN EPILOGUE IN TWO PICTURES

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Bravery Reginald Scott, of Merton, was one of Gobion's chief admirers. He thought that no one was so clever or so good, and felt sure that his friend's traducers – and they were many – had never really got down below the crust of cynicism and surface immorality of mind as he had done. He certainly knew that Gobion occasionally drank more than was good for him, but he put it down to misadventure more than taste.

He was a good young man, rather commonplace in intellect, but of a blameless life and an unsuspicious, happy temperament.

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"I don't understand," she said.

"Well, the fact is the guvnor has stopped supplies, and I'm sent down."

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