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A MAN OF MARK

MR. WITT'S WIDOW

FATHER STAFFORD

A CHANGE OF AIR

HALF A HERO

THE PRISONER OF ZENDA

THE GOD IN THE CAR

THE DOLLY DIALOGUES

COMEDIES OF COURTSHIP

THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO

THE HEART OF PRINCESS OSRA

PHROSO

SIMON DALE

RUPERT OF HENTZAU

THE KING'S MIRROR

QUISANTÉ



A SERVANT OF
THE PUBLIC

BY

ANTHONY HOPE

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY HAROLD PERCIVAL, A.R.E.

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON


First Published in 1905


CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. Muddock and Mead 1
II. First Impressions 15
III. An Arrangement for Sunday 29
IV. By Way of Precaution 43
V. A Day in the Country 55
VI. Away with the Ribbons! 70
VII. Under the Nosegay 86
VIII. The Legitimate Claimant 102
IX. Renunciation: A Drama 118
X. The Licence of Virtue 133
XI. What is Truth? 149
XII. At Close Quarters 164
XIII The Heroine fails 179
XIV. As Mr. Flint said 194
XV. The Man Upstairs 210
XVI. Morality smiles 227
XVII. At Sea and in Port 243
XVIII. The Play and the Part 257
XIX. Collateral Effects 270
XX. The Ways divide 286
XXI. What does it Mean? 301
XXII. Other Worlds 316
XXIII. The Most Natural Thing 332
XXIV. "A Good Sight" 348

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
"I SHOULD BE RATHER AFRAID NEVER TO CHANGE TO A PERSON. IT WOULD MAKE HIM MEAN SO TERRIBLY MUCH TO ME, WOULDN'T IT?" Frontispiece
"SOMEBODY'LL BE GLAD TO SEE ME, ANYHOW," HE ENDED, WITH A LAUGH 224
THE CONTRACT PUNCTILIOUSLY SIGNED BY ALL THE PARTIES AND WITNESSED BY JANET THE MAID ... THEY HAD OPENED A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE 301
WALKED IN SILENCE SIDE BY SIDE 360

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