Our Admirable Betty: A Romance
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"The Major, mam, the Major has a truly wonderful 'ead!" said Sergeant Zebedee Tring as he stood, hammer in hand, very neat and precise from broad shoe buckles to smart curled wig that offset his square, bronzed face."Head, Sergeant, head!" retorted pretty, dimpled Mrs. Agatha, nodding at the Sergeant's broad black."'Ead man, yes!" said the Sergeant, busily nailing up a branch of the Major's favourite cherry tree. "The Major has a truly wonderful 'ead, regarding which I take liberty to observe, as two sword cuts and spent bullet have in nowise affected it, Mrs. Agatha, mam, which is a fact as I...
Chapters (110)
- OUR ADMIRABLE BETTY
- A ROMANCE
- JEFFERY FARNOL
- LONDON & EDINBURGH SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO. LTD.
- TO MY MOTHER
- CONTENTS
- OUR ADMIRABLE BETTY
- CHAPTER I
- CONCERNING THE MAJOR'S CHERRIES
- CHAPTER II
- INTRODUCING THE RAVISHER OF THE SAME
- CHAPTER III
- WHICH TELLS HOW THE MAJOR CLIMBED A WALL
- CHAPTER IV
- CONCERNING THE BUTTONS OF THE RAMILLIE COAT
- CHAPTER V
- HOW SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING BEGAN TO WONDER
- CHAPTER VI
- WHICH DESCRIBES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A POACHER
- CHAPTER VII
- WHICH RELATES HOW THE POACHER ESCAPED
- CHAPTER VIII
- OF PANCRAS, VISCOUNT MERIVALE
- CHAPTER IX
- WHICH IS A VERY BRIEF CHAPTER
- CHAPTER X
- INTRODUCING DIVERS FINE GENTLEMEN
- CHAPTER XI
- IN WHICH LADY BELINDA TALKS
- CHAPTER XII
- THE VISCOUNT DISCOURSES ON SARTORIAL ART
- CHAPTER XIII
- OF INDIGNATION, A WOOD, AND A GIPSY
- CHAPTER XIV
- SOME DESCRIPTION OF A KISS
- CHAPTER XV
- WHEREIN IS MUCH TALK BUT LITTLE ACTION
- CHAPTER XVI
- HOW MR. DALROYD SAW A GHOST AND THE SERGEANT AN APPARITION
- CHAPTER XVII
- HOW MY LADY BETTY WROTE A LETTER
- CHAPTER XVIII
- HOW MAJOR D'ARCY RECOVERED HIS YOUTH
- CHAPTER XIX
- HOW THE MAJOR LOST HIS YOUTH AGAIN
- CHAPTER XX
- HOW THE MAJOR RAN AWAY
- CHAPTER XXI
- OF CRIMINATIONS
- CHAPTER XXII
- WHICH RELATES HOW SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING QUELLED SCANDAL WITH A PEWTER-POT
- CHAPTER XXIII
- DESCRIBES A TRIUMPH AND A DEFEAT
- CHAPTER XXIV
- DEALS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WITH TREASONABLE MATTERS
- CHAPTER XXV
- IN WHICH THE GHOST IS LAID
- CHAPTER XXVI
- OF BACCHUS AND THE MUSES
- CHAPTER XXVII
- HOW THE SERGEANT RECOUNTED AN OLD STORY
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- THE MAJOR COMES TO A RESOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXIX
- TELLS HOW LADY BETTY DID THE SAME
- CHAPTER XXX
- CONCERNING CHARLES, EARL OF MEDHURST
- CHAPTER XXXI
- WHICH DESCRIBES SOMETHING OF MY LADY BETTY'S GRATITUDE
- CHAPTER XXXII
- FLINT AND STEEL
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- DESCRIBING SOMETHING OF COQUETRY AND A DAWN
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- HOW MR. DALROYD MADE A PLAN AND LOCKED HIS DOOR
- CHAPTER XXXV
- HOW THE SERGEANT TOOK WARNING OF A WITCH
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- HOW THEY RODE TO INCHBOURNE
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- OF ROGUES AND PLOTS
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- HOW THE MAJOR MADE HIS WILL
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- WHICH IS A QUADRUPLE CHAPTER I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER XL
- OF THE ONSET AT THE HAUNTED MILL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CONCERNING HIGHWAYMEN AND THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE
- CHAPTER XLII
- WHICH DESCRIBES A DUEL
- CHAPTER XLIII
- HOW THEY DRANK A NEW TOAST
- CHAPTER XLIV
- SOME ACCOUNT OF A HIGHWAYMAN
- CHAPTER XLV
- CERTAIN ADVENTURES OF THE RAMILLIE COAT
- CHAPTER XLVI
- FURTHER INTIMATE ADVENTURES OF THE RAMILLIE COAT
- CHAPTER XLVII
- OF A FEMININE COUNCIL OF WAR
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- OF THE INSUBORDINATION OF SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING
- CHAPTER XLIX
- OF A JOURNEY BY NIGHT
- CHAPTER L
- WHICH TELLS OF ANOTHER DAWN
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