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When a Man's Single; A Tale of Literary Life
When a Man's Single A Tale of Literary Life Author:James Matthew Barrie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It... more » has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV "THE SCORN OF SCORNS" St. Leonard's Lodge is the residence of Mr. William Meredith, an ex-mayor of Silchester, and stands in the fashionable suburb of the town. There was at one time considerable intercourse between this house and Dome Castle, the seat of Colonel Abinger, though they are five miles apart and in different counties; and one day, after Rob had been on the press for a few months, two boys set out from the castle to show themselves to Nell Meredith. They could have reached the high-road by a private walk between a beach and an ivy hedge, but they preferred to climb down a steep path to the wild running Dome. The advantage of this route was that they risked their necks by taking it. Nell, who did not expect visitors, was sitting by the fire in her boudoir dreaming. It was the room in which she and Mary Abinger had often discussed such great questions as Woman, her Aims, her Influence; Man, his Instability, his Weakness, his Degeneration; the Poor, how arewe to Help them; why Lady Lucy Gilding wears Pink when Blue is obviously her Colour. Nell was tucked away into a soft armchair, in which her father never saw her without wondering that such a little thing should require eighteen yards for a dress. " I'm not so little," she would say on these occasions, and then Mr. Meredith chuckled, for he knew that there were young men who considered his Nell tall and terrible. He liked to wa...« less