Halfway House: A Comedy of Degrees
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. ...rehearsed it, she had nothing to say. He found that he must import her bodily into his conversation. "For one thing," he continued, after a pause of exploration, "I now have leisure, as you have seen, to interest myself in my neighbours, and have derived so much pleasure from it that I am deeply grateful to those who have indulged me. You are one. I think that you must have remark...
Chapters (40)
- BOOK I
- I MR. GERMAIN TAKES NOTICE
- II MR. GERMAIN REVELS SEDATELY
- III MR. DUPLESSIS PREVARICATES
- IV A MISS AND A CATCH
- V HOW TO BREAK A HEDGE
- VI MISS MIDDLEHAM IS INVITED TO CONFIRM A VISION
- VII MISS MIDDLEHAM HAS VISIONS OF HER OWN
- VIII FRIENDSHIP’S GARLAND
- IX THE WELDING OF THE BOLT
- X CRATYLUS WITH MARINA: THE INCREDIBLE WORD
- XI COOL COMFORT
- XII ALARUMS
- XIII WHAT THEY SAID AT HOME
- XIV THE NEWS REACHES THE PYRENEES
- XV A PHILOSOPHER EMBALES
- XVI THE WEDDING DAY
- XVII THE WEDDING NIGHT
- BOOK II
- I IN WHICH WE PAY A FIRST VISIT TO SOUTHOVER
- II REFLECTIONS ON HONEYMOONS AND SUCHLIKE
- III MATTERS OF ELECTION
- IV LONDON NIGHTS AND DAYS
- V LORD GUNNER ASCERTAINS WHERE WE ARE
- VI SENHOUSE ON THE MORAL LAW
- VII SHE GLOSSES THE TEXT
- VIII ADVENTURE CROWDS ADVENTURE
- IX THE PATTERAN
- X THE BROTHERS TOUCH BOTTOM
- XI OF MARY IN THE NORTH
- XII COLLOQUY IN THE HILLS
- XIII THE SUMMONS
- XIV VIGIL
- XV THE DEAD HAND
- XVI WINGS
- XVII FIRST FLIGHT
- XVIII ENTER A BIRD-CATCHER
- XIX HEARTACHE AND THE PHILOSOPHER
- XX IN WHICH BINGO IS UNANSWERABLE
- The End
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