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Title: A Man's Man

Author: Ian Hay

Release Date: December 7, 2012 [eBook #41574]

Language: English

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A MAN'S MAN

"O, HUGHIE, DID YOU?" (p. 376)

COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September 1910

TO

T. B.

Partner (after several collisions). I should think you were more at home in a boat than a ballroom, Mr. Rudderford!

Little Bobbie Rudderford (the famous Oxbridge coxswain). Yes; and by Jove, I'd sooner steer eight men than one woman, any day!—Punch.

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE

I. Naval Manœuvres 3

II. Introduces the Heroine of this Narrative 22

III. Jimmy Marrable 28

IV. An Understudy 49

V. The Joy of Battle 61

BOOK TWO

FORTITER IN RE

VI. Knight-Errantry à la Mode 81

VII. The Alternative Route 112

VIII. A Benefit Performance 130

IX. Litera Scripta Manet 146

X. The End of an Odyssey 157

BOOK THREE

SUAVITER IN MODO

XI. Sealed Orders 179

XII. A Change of Atmosphere 195

XIII. Varium et Mutabile 223

XIV. Business Only 247

BOOK FOUR

THE UNJUST STEWARD

XV. Deputations—With a Difference 263

XVI. In which Charity Suffereth Long, and Joan
Misses her Cue 292

XVII. In which Charity Begins at Home, and Hughie
Misses his Train 320

XVIII. Ex Machina 339

XIX. In which Love Flies out of the Window 354

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