A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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Title: A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century
Author: E. P. Roe
Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6311] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on November 25, 2002]
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THE WORKS OF E. P. ROE
VOLUME THREE
A KNIGHT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
[Illustration: "WOULD HE NEVER LOOK UP?" Knight XIX Century _Frontispiece_]
THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY HONORED FATHER
PREFACE
He best deserves a knightly crest, Who slays the evils that infest His soul within. If victor here, He soon will find a wider sphere. The world is cold to him who pleads; The world bows low to knightly deeds.
CORNWALL ON THE HUDSON, N.Y.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
BAD TRAINING FOR A KNIGHT
CHAPTER II
BOTH APOLOGIZE
CHAPTER III
CHAINED TO AN ICEBERG
CHAPTER IV
IMMATURE
CHAPTER V
PASSION'S CLAMOR
CHAPTER VI
"GLOOMY GRANDEUR"
CHAPTER VII
BIRDS OF PREY
CHAPTER VIII
THEIR VICTIM
CHAPTER IX
PAT AND THE PRESS
CHAPTER X
RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER XI
HALDANE IS ARRESTED
CHAPTER XII
A MEMORABLE MEETING
CHAPTER XIII
OUR KNIGHT IN JAIL
CHAPTER XIV
MR. ARNOT'S SYSTEM WORKS BADLY
CHAPTER XV
HALDANE'S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XVI
THE IMPULSES OF WOUNDED PRIDE
CHAPTER XVII
AT ODDS WITH THE WORLD
CHAPTER XVIII
THE WORLD'S VERDICT--OUR KNIGHT A CRIMINAL
CHAPTER XIX
THE WORLD'S BEST OFFER--A PRISON
CHAPTER XX
MAIDEN AND WOOD-SAWYER
CHAPTER XXI
MAGNANIMOUS MR. SHRUMPF
CHAPTER XXII
A MAN WHO HATED HIMSELF
CHAPTER XXIII
MR. GROWTHER BECOMES GIGANTIC
CHAPTER XXIV
HOW PUBLIC OPINION IS OFTEN MADE
CHAPTER XXV
A PAPER PONIARD
CHAPTER XXVI
A SORRY KNIGHT
CHAPTER XXVII
GOD SENT HIS ANGEL
CHAPTER XXVIII
FACING THE CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XXIX
HOW EVIL ISOLATES
CHAPTER XXX
IDEAL KNIGHTHOOD
CHAPTER XXXI
THE LOW STARTING-POINT
CHAPTER XXXII
A SACRED REFRIGERATOR
CHAPTER XXXIII
A DOUBTFUL BATTLE IN PROSPECT
CHAPTER XXXIV
A FOOT-HOLD
CHAPTER XXXV
THAT SERMON WAS A BOMB-SHELL
CHAPTER XXXVI
MR. GROWTHER FEEDS AN ANCIENT GRUDGE
CHAPTER XXXVII
HOPING FOR A MIRACLE
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE MIRACLE TAKES PLACE
CHAPTER XXXIX
VOTARIES OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER XL
HUMAN NATURE
CHAPTER XLI
MRS. ARNOT'S CREED
CHAPTER XLII
THE LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD
CHAPTER XLIII
MR. GROWTHER "STUMPED"
CHAPTER XLIV
GROWTH
CHAPTER XLV
LAURA ROMEYN
CHAPTER XLVI
MISJUDGED
CHAPTER XLVII
LAURA CHOOSES HER KNIGHT
CHAPTER XLVIII
MRS. ARNOT'S KNIGHT
CHAPTER XLIX
A KNIGHTLY DEED
CHAPTER L
"O DREADED DEATH!"
CHAPTER LI
"O PRICELESS LIFE!"
CHAPTER LII
A MAN VERSUS A CONNOISSEUR
CHAPTER LIII
EXIT OF LAURA'S FIRST KNIGHT
CHAPTER LIV
ANOTHER KNIGHT APPEARS
A KNIGHT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER I
BAD TRAINING FOR A KNIGHT
Egbert Haldane had an enemy who loved him very dearly, and he sincerely returned her affection, as he was in duty bound, since she was his mother. If, inspired by hate and malice, Mrs. Haldane had brooded over but one question at the cradle of her child, How can I most surely destroy this boy? she could scarcely have set about the task more skilfully and successfully.
But so far from having any such malign and unnatural intention, Mrs. Haldane idolized her son. To make the paradox more striking, she was actually seeking to give him a Christian training and character. As he leaned against her knee Bible tales were told him, not merely for the sake of the marvellous interest which they ever have for children, but in the hope, also, that the moral they carry with them might remain as germinating seed. At an early age the mother had commenced taking him to church, and often gave him an admonitory nudge as his restless eyes wandered from the venerable face in the pulpit. In brief, the apparent influences of his early life were similar to those existing in multitudes of Christian homes. On general principles, it might be hoped that the boy's future would be all that his friends could desire; nor did he himself in early youth promise so badly to superficial observers; and the son of the wealthy Mrs. Haldane was, on the part of the world, more the object of envy than of censure. But a close observer, who judged of characteristic tendencies and their results by the light of experience, might justly fear that the mother had unwittingly done her child irreparable wrong.
She had made him a tyrant and a relentless task-master even in his infancy. As his baby-will developed he found it supreme. His nurse was obliged to
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