_Methuen's Colonial Library_
QUISANTE
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
A Man of Mark Mr. Witt's Widow Father Stafford A Change of Air Half a Hero The Prisoner of Zenda The God in the Car The Dolly Dialogues Comedies of Courtship The Chronicles of Count Antonio The Heart of Princess Osra Phroso Simon Dale Rupert of Hentzau The King's Mirror
QUISANTE
BY
ANTHONY HOPE
METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1900
_Colonial Library_
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. DICK BENYON'S OUTSIDER 1 II. MOMENTS 16 III. SANDRO'S WAY 31 IV. HE'S COMING! 46 V. WHIMSY-WHAMSIES 65 VI. ON DUTY HILL 84 VII. ADVICE FROM AUNT MARIA 101 VIII. CONTRA MUNDUM 120 IX. LEAD US NOT-- 137 X. PRACTICAL POLITICS 155 XI. SEVENTY-SEVEN AND SUSY SINNETT 176 XII. A HIGHLY CORRECT ATTITUDE 196 XIII. NOT SUPERHUMAN 215 XIV. OPEN EYES 235 XV. A STRANGE IDEA 257 XVI. THE IRREVOCABLE 279 XVII. DONE FOR? 301 XVIII. FOR LACK OF LOVE? 321 XIX. DEATH DEFIED 339 XX. THE QUIET LIFE TO-MORROW 355 XXI. A RELICT 371
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Quisanté by Anthony Hope
- 2: Her only brother Raphael Quisante
- 3: Then Miss Quisante observed reluctantly
- 4: Was that leader to be Quisante
- 5: Quisante had swept away the prejudices
- 6: He was a little weaselly perhaps
- 7: It involved an infinite discussion of Quisante
- 8: But she said nothing about the weaselly flirtation
- 9: Morewood turned away in open impatience
- 10: If not anything about Quisante
- 11: A cool question from Marchmont
- 12: Marchmont doesn't control my opinions
- 13: Not only to the tolerance of Weston Marchmont and of society
- 14: They might promote his fortunes
- 15: Quisante looked at him thoughtfully
- 16: Nor did she want to hear Dick Benyon
- 17: Quisante rose to make his reply
- 18: Miss Quisante admitted grudgingly
- 19: And you battled with it splendidly
- 20: Dick Benyon was a man of plentiful ideas
- 21: Why Marchmont fondly affected them
- 22: By nature Quisante was very far from that
- 23: Quisante came almost as a stranger
- 24: What's Sandro got to do with your Church
- 25: Quisante had begun well in the House
- 26: Ashwood was Dick Benyon's country place
- 27: I'll come back after the holidays
- 28: Baxter in a brief but sufficient aside
- 29: We had whimsy whamsies last night
- 30: Would not have denounced whimsy whamsies
- 31: But for all this the Dean did not give up Quisante
- 32: Quisante has a wonderfully acute intellect
- 33: Quisante was almost a stranger
- 34: His defiance and his pleading for himself
- 35: Not to the mere man Alexander Quisante
- 36: None of them at Ashwood professed to know
- 37: Though an apology to Morewood could not soothe Fred
- 38: She knew quite well how Quisante felt
- 39: Then Morewood spoke with deliberate plainness
- 40: She had sent no letter to Marchmont
- 41: Quisante was invited to be the third speaker
- 42: Alas for the returning quiet of Dick Benyon's conscience
- 43: I never am surprised at Sandro
- 44: Miss Quisante had stopped laughing
- 45: Quisante would marry some other woman
- 46: Working together with her affection for Marchmont
- 47: She remembered Quisante on Duty Hill
- 48: With the departure of Marchmont
- 49: Real love is so beautifully undiscriminating
- 50: Baxter had gathered from a singularly quiet life
- 51: He won't like any sort of connection with Alexander Quisante
- 52: He looked courageously at Morewood and ended
- 53: Told her that he owed Dick Benyon a thousand pounds or more
- 54: Took Quisante everywhere with her
- 55: Quisante received him with friendliness and even effusion
- 56: Quisante was walking towards them
- 57: Again Miss Quisante smiled approvingly
- 58: He doesn't speechify so much now
- 59: It was the borough for which Quisante sat
- 60: And who had been Mayor of Henstead three several times
- 61: Quisante nodded grave appreciation
- 62: When did you come to disbelieve in it
- 63: Did he mean to win Henstead with that
- 64: Morewood said to Marchmont once
- 65: Morewood went on with a satirical smile
- 66: Some Quisante brought home from the House
- 67: She leant back in her chair and looked at him
- 68: I talk to Miss Quisante You've met her
- 69: But Marchmont was not thinking of Blair
- 70: Rooms were taken at the Bull in Henstead
- 71: Said Quisante in resentful peevishness
- 72: Morewood was a long while answering
- 73: And that's what I call Alexander Quisante
- 74: One thing the Quisante people as Mrs
- 75: Never yet in Henstead had they heard him so inspired
- 76: They know all that about Sir Winterton
- 77: Sir Winterton refused to make any statement
- 78: And Sir Winterton nodded and smiled
- 79: Sir Winterton rose slowly to his feet
- 80: To all the world and to May Quisante
- 81: Only two miles off along the Henstead Road
- 82: It does annoy Winterton so terribly
- 83: Asked Sir Winterton in a tone of lofty surprise
- 84: That was the sort of thing Henstead liked
- 85: Nothing had been said to Sir Winterton
- 86: Sir Winterton disliked his task very much but
- 87: Sir Winterton had not been so content
- 88: Quisante grew greater in her eyes
- 89: This wretched story about Sir Winterton
- 90: Sir Winterton was affable again
- 91: A beastly unscrupulous fellow I call Smiley
- 92: She made Sir Winterton a trifle absurd
- 93: I'm afraid he's not nearly as strong as Winterton
- 94: Presently Quisante sighed and opened his eyes
- 95: When Quisante had won Henstead
- 96: Morewood interposed before Dick could answer
- 97: Although he knew Sir Winterton Mildmay
- 98: Marchmont looked on rather amused
- 99: When you're tired of a rosy apple
- 100: That's my husband's right hand man at Henstead
- 101: Hardly a word to Quisante himself
- 102: And Quisante grew more eloquent
- 103: And I shall go and see Maturin
- 104: Brusquely and almost rudely Quisante brushed him
- 105: Quisante speaks the truth or not
- 106: Lady Castlefort was for the moment taken aback
- 107: Lady Mildmay smiled gladly on Aunt Maria
- 108: There's nothing the matter with Sandro
- 109: May Quisante sat in apparent idleness
- 110: Been Prime Minister and so forth
- 111: The facts about Maturin are fully stated
- 112: And so far as Quisante was concerned
- 113: In what good Lady Mildmay said
- 114: Sir Winterton laughed serenely
- 115: Morewood called across to Marchmont
- 116: For a moment Morewood said nothing
- 117: Morewood made in the direction indicated
- 118: Morewood looked across the lawn again
- 119: She covered her face with her hands and sobbed
- 120: Her face showed again a sort of puzzle
- 121: Standing between Marchmont and Dick
- 122: Morewood was ready for him again
- 123: Baxter looked up with a patient smile
- 124: Witnessed to a side of Quisante in which Mrs
- 125: That he hoped a long life for Alexander Quisante
- 126: The actual Quisante had been bad
- 127: So far as the reason lay in the incident of Ashwood
- 128: Quisante raised himself on his elbow
- 129: If he felt all this for Aunt Maria
- 130: Sandro seemed more himself again
- 131: People's infatuation with Quisante
- 132: What was Lady May Quisante thinking of
- 133: She accused the foolishly wondering
- 134: Plainly did she wish the doom to fall
- 135: With his persistent eyes unwaveringly set on her
- 136: Torquay or somewhere in our villa
- 137: After an instant Quisante rose slowly and falteringly
- 138: To address a great meeting at Henstead
- 139: How scornful your hills made Constantine Blair
- 140: I thought we had got nearer at Ashwood
- 141: Marchmont rose and shook hands
- 142: But I'd rather you didn't talk about the Alethea when Mr
- 143: He had known that she disapproved
- 144: This was not a dead man's kiss
- 145: The Henstead speech is to be made
- 146: Both for the compromise and for Quisante
- 147: Quisante listened with a smile
- 148: Said Marchmont in a curious tone
- 149: Quisante was surrounded by admirers
- 150: Tillman stood for a moment longer before him
- 151: Alexander Quisante would speak no more in Henstead
- 152: They followed the lead he gave them at Henstead
- 153: Mustn't make his relict your wife