A MAN OF HONOR.
BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.
ILLUSTRATED BY M. WOOLF
NEW YORK: ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, 245 BROADWAY.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by the ORANGE JUDD COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
TO MARION, MY WIFE.
[Illustration: "I'VE GOT YOU NOW."]
PREFACE.
I have long been curious to know whether or not I could write a pretty good story, and now that the publishers are about to send the usual press copies of this book to the critics I am in a fair way to have my curiosity on that point satisfied.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.--Mr. Pagebrook gets up and Calls an Ancient Lawgiver 11
Chapter II.--Mr. Pagebrook is Invited to Breakfast 22
Chapter III.--Mr. Pagebrook Eats his Breakfast 26
Chapter IV.--Mr. Pagebrook Learns something about the Customs of the Country 35
Chapter V.--Mr. Pagebrook Makes Some Acquaintances 42
Chapter VI.--Mr. Pagebrook Makes a Good Impression 48
Chapter VII.--Mr. Pagebrook Learns Several Things 54
Chapter VIII.--Miss Sudie Makes an Apt Quotation 61
Chapter IX.--Mr. Pagebrook Meets an Acquaintance 65
Chapter X.--Chiefly Concerning "Foggy." 70
Chapter XI.--Mr. Pagebrook Rides 79
Chapter XII.--Mr. Pagebrook Dines with his Cousin Sarah Ann 84
Chapter XIII.--Concerning the Rivulets of Blue Blood 95
Chapter XIV.--Mr. Pagebrook Manages to be in at the Death 102
Chapter XV.--Some very Unreasonable Conduct 109
Chapter XVI.--What Occurred Next Morning 118
Chapter XVII.--In which Mr. Pagebrook Bids his Friends Good-by 123
Chapter XVIII.--Mr. Pagebrook Goes to Work 128
Chapter XIX.--A Short Chapter, not very interesting, perhaps, but of some Importance in the Story, as the Reader will probably discover after awhile 134
Chapter XX.--Cousin Sarah Ann Takes Robert's Part 138
Chapter XXI.--Miss Barksdale Expresses some Opinions 143
Chapter XXII.--Mr. Sharp Does His Duty 150
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Man of Honor by George Cary Eggleston
- 2: In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method
- 3: His sturdy manhood rebelled against its own weakness
- 4: Now Cape May is an expensive place
- 5: But ordered it expressly for Cape May
- 6: And began speculating upon what it could possibly mean
- 7: Returning now he brought two vallables for Mr
- 8: Robert Pagebrook had never seen his cousin
- 9: That's poz roz and the king's English
- 10: You impertinent My dear Billy
- 11: And do other dramatic and highly proper things
- 12: There's Powhatan Court House now
- 13: Cousin Edwin's grandfather was our great grandfather
- 14: They call father 'Colonel Barksdale
- 15: Barksdale himself had been that father's nearest friend
- 16: What do you think of Cousin Edwin
- 17: Did you ever hear of the dead Dutchman
- 18: Young Pagebrook was an early riser
- 19: A fact of which Miss Sudie speedily became conscious
- 20: Looking into the dining room he saw there Cousin Sudie
- 21: What makes you say 'Virginian housekeepers
- 22: Miss Sudie makes an Apt Quotation
- 23: Robert had recently been left almost alone with Miss Sudie
- 24: But dey a'n't nobody sick at Shirley
- 25: But Graybeard is quite lame just now
- 26: This man's Christian name was not Foggy
- 27: Then turning to Foggy he said Mr
- 28: For I feel an interest in Ewing
- 29: But he was not in love with Cousin Sudie
- 30: But he remembered Cousin Sudie
- 31: And then ostentatiously burst into tears
- 32: Robert Pagebrook certainly did not wish ill to Cousin Sudie
- 33: In the blue room he found Ewing
- 34: Ewing thinking Robert the only real friend he could claim
- 35: The Pembrokes were always considered an excellent family
- 36: Now Sarah was your Cousin Sarah Ann's grandmother
- 37: Robert rode right after the hounds always
- 38: When Harrison avoided a thicket he avoided it also
- 39: And the animal fell heavily over Harrison
- 40: And after a little while Sudie withdrew
- 41: But What is it Cousin Sudie
- 42: This year frost was late for us
- 43: But when Cousin Billy staid with her
- 44: When the two were closeted together Maj
- 45: This troubled Miss Sudie more than all the rest
- 46: Are the assets anything like equal to the liabilities
- 47: And at dinner Dudley said 'Our paper
- 48: But before Miss Sudie could leave the bedside
- 49: But Shirley seems so much like home
- 50: That's just what I tell Cousin Edwin
- 51: Miss Sudie Barksdale was a very brave little woman
- 52: Of any disposition to do Robert injustice
- 53: I have not assumed that Robert is guilty
- 54: Than logic truer than fact truer than truth itself
- 55: And that instead of making it good he absconded
- 56: Have you a receipt for the amount remitted
- 57: Theoretically you are not imprisoned
- 58: To state all the facts of the case in my affidavit
- 59: He would devote himself hereafter wholly to writing
- 60: In which Miss Sudie Acts very Unreasonably
- 61: Cousin Edwin doesn't always act out his own character
- 62: Barksdale leaned his head sorrowfully upon his hand
- 63: In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method
- 64: He had expected to find in Sudie an unreasoning faith
- 65: If Robert had wanted to swindle anybody
- 66: I don't believe you are an absconding debtor
- 67: Robert bade his friend adieu after lunch
- 68: And Robert told him everything
- 69: And Foggy fleeced him pretty badly
- 70: To every such suggestion Cousin Sarah Ann
- 71: But Harrison says Foggy won that much from him
- 72: Go and ask your Miss Sudie to put two or three shirts
- 73: Payable to the order of David Currier
- 74: Barksdale Asks to be put upon His Oath
- 75: Charles Harrison and James Madison Raves
- 76: With Foggy the case was different
- 77: Foggy then indorsed it to Harrison
- 78: Foggy needed very little sounding indeed
- 79: Asked Miss Sudie in a tremor of uncertainty
- 80: Barksdale has retired from practice
- 81: Robert and Sudie have a pretty little place in the country
- 82: Author of gardening for profit
- 83: Entitled Beautifying Country Homes