MR. CREWE'S CAREER, Complete

By Winston Churchill

CONTENTS

BOOK 1.

CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT

CHAPTER II. ON THE TREATMENT OF PRODIGALS

CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE PRACTICE OF LAW

CHAPTER IV. "TIMEO DANAOS"

CHAPTER V. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

CHAPTER VI. ENTER THE LION

CHAPTER VII. THE LEOPARD AND HIS SPOTS

CHAPTER VIII. THE TRIALS OF AN HONOURABLE

CHAPTER IX. MR. CREWE ASSAULTS THE CAPITAL

CHAPTER X. "FOR BILLS MAY COME, AND BILLS MAY GO"

BOOK 2.

CHAPTER XI. THE HOPPER

CHAPTER XII. MR. REDBROOK'S PARTY

CHAPTER XIII. THE REALM OF PEGASUS

CHAPTER XIV. THE DESCENDANTS OF HORATIUS

CHAPTER XV. THE DISTURBANCE OF JUNE SEVENTH

CHAPTER XVI. THE "BOOK OF ARGUMENTS" IS OPENED

CHAPTER XVII. BUSY DAYS AT WEDDERBURN

CHAPTER XVIII. A SPIRIT IN THE WOODS

CHAPTER XIX. MR. JABE JENNEY ENTERTAINS

CHAPTER XX. MR. CREWE: AN APPRECIATION (1)

BOOK 3.

CHAPTER XXI. ST. GILES OF THE BLAMELESS LIFE

CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH EUPHRASIA TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER XXIII. A FALLING-OUT IN HIGH PLACES

CHAPTER XXIV. AN ADVENTURE OF VICTORIA'S

CHAPTER XXV. MORE ADVENTURER

CHAPTER XXVI. THE FOCUS OF WRATH

CHAPTER XXVII. THE ARENA AND THE DUST

CHAPTER XXVIII.   THE VOICE OF AN ERA

CHAPTER XXIX. THE VALE OF THE BLUE

CHAPTER XXX. P.S.

BOOK 1.

CHAPTER I. THE HONOURABLE HILARY VANE SITS FOR HIS PORTRAIT

I may as well begin this story with Mr. Hilary Vane, more frequently addressed as the Honourable Hilary Vane, although it was the gentleman's proud boast that he had never held an office in his life. He belonged to the Vanes of Camden Street,—a beautiful village in the hills near Ripton,—and was, in common with some other great men who had made a noise in New York and the nation, a graduate of Camden Wentworth Academy. But Mr. Vane, when he was at home, lived on a wide, maple-shaded street in the city of Ripton, cared for by an elderly housekeeper who had more edges than a new-fangled mowing machine. The house was a porticoed one which had belonged to the Austens for a hundred years or more, for Hilary Vane had married, towards middle age, Miss Sarah Austen. In two years he was a widower, and he never tried it again; he had the Austens' house, and that many-edged woman, Euphrasia Cotton, the Austens' housekeeper.

The house was of wood, and was painted white as regularly as leap year. From the street front to the vegetable garden in the