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The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington By: S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) |
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A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. WEIR MITCHELL, M.D., LL.D. With Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller [Decoration] New York
The Century Co.
1908 Copyright, 1907, 1908, by
The Century Co. Published October, 1908
TO WM. D. HOWELLS IN PAYMENT OF A DEBT LONG OWED
TO A MASTER OF FICTION AND TO
A FRIEND OF MANY YEARS
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I 3
CHAPTER II 18
CHAPTER III 38
CHAPTER IV 52
CHAPTER V 64
CHAPTER VI 77
CHAPTER VII 90
CHAPTER VIII 107
CHAPTER IX 132
CHAPTER X 144
CHAPTER XI 159
CHAPTER XII 176
CHAPTER XIII 196
CHAPTER XIV 207
CHAPTER XV 224
CHAPTER XVI 241
CHAPTER XVII 254
CHAPTER XVIII 263
CHAPTER XIX 273
CHAPTER XX 285
CHAPTER XXI 305
CHAPTER XXII 318
CHAPTER XXIII 326
CHAPTER XXIV 341
CHAPTER XXV 347
CHAPTER XXVI 377
CHAPTER XXVII 401
L'envoi 421
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
She stood still, amazed Frontispiece PAGE As they struck, he called out, "Yvonne!" 13 With a quick movement she threw the big stallion in
front of Ça Ira 69 "Well played!" cried Schmidt "the jest and the rapier" 113 "Thou canst not shoe my conscience" 153 René struggled in Schmidt's arms, wild with rage 247 She threw the fairy tissue about Pearl's head, smiling
as she considered the effect 289 "I know, I know, but " 337 "Then I beg to resign my position" 367 "Not to day, children, not to day" 409
THE RED CITY
THE RED CITY A NOVEL OF THE SECOND ADMINISTRATION OF WASHINGTON
I.
About five in the afternoon on the 23d of May, 1792, the brig Morning
Star of Bristol, John Maynard, master, with a topgallant breeze after
her, ran into Delaware Bay in mid channel between Cape May and Cape
Henlopen. Here was the only sunshine they had seen in three weeks. The
captain, liking the warmth on his broad back, glanced up approvingly at
mast and rigging. "She's a good one," he said, and noting the ship
powdered white with her salt record of the sea's attentions, he lighted
a pipe and said aloud, "She's salted like Christmas pork." As he spoke,
he cast an approving eye on a young fellow who sat at ease in the lower
rigging, laughing as the brig rolled over and a deluge of water flushed
the deck and made the skipper on the after hatch lift his feet out of
the way of the wash... Continue reading book >>
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