QUEED
A NOVEL
BY
HENRY SYDNOR HARRISON
WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY
R.M. CROSBY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911
TO MY MOTHER
CONTENTS
| I |
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First Meeting between a Citizen in Spectacles and the Great
Pleasure-Dog Behemoth; also of Charles Gardiner West, a
Personage at Thirty. |
3 |
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| II |
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Mrs. Paynter's Boarding-House: which was not founded as an
Eleemosynary Institution. |
14 |
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| III |
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Encounter between Charlotte Lee Weyland, a Landlady's Agent,
and Doctor Queed, a Young Man who wouldn't pay hisBoard. |
25 |
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| IV |
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Relating how Two Stars in their Courses fought for Mr. Queed;
and how he accepted Remunerative Employment under Colonel
Cowles, the Military Political Economist. |
40 |
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| V |
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Selections from Contemporary Opinions of Mr. Queed; also concerning
Henry G. Surface, his Life and Deeds; of Fifi, the
Landlady's Daughter, and how she happened to look up Altruism
in the Dictionary. |
51 |
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| VI |
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Autobiographical Data imparted, for Sound Business Reasons,
to a Landlady's Agent; of the Agent's Other Title, etc. |
64 |
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| VII |
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In which an Assistant Editor, experiencing the Common Desire
to thrash a Proof-Reader, makes a Humiliating Discovery;
and of how Trainer Klinker gets a Pupil the Same Evening. |
79 |
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| VIII |
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Formal Invitation to Fifi to share Queed's Dining-Room (provided
it is very cold upstairs); and First Outrage upon the
Sacred Schedule of Hours. |
93 |
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| IX |
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Of Charles Gardiner West, President-Elect of Blaines College,
and his Ladies Fair: all in Mr. West's Lighter Manner. |
104 |
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| X |
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Of Fifi on Friendship, and who would be sorry if Queed died;
of Queed's Mad Impulse, sternly overcome; of his Indignant
Call upon Nicolovius, the Old Professor. |
114 |
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| XI |
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Concerning a Plan to make a Small Gift to a Fellow-Boarder,
and
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