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A MAN'S MAN
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CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE
I. NAVAL MANOEUVRES 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
XX. SINFUL WASTE OF A PENNY STAMP 372
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL
NOT ENDURE
A MAN'S MAN
CHAPTER I
NAVAL MANOEUVRES
A University college varies its facial expression about as frequently as
The Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well.
This remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and
luncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable
grassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside.
Their stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather than diminished by the
glimpse of an occasional flying figure in a cap and gown, or the
spectacle of a middle-aged female of a discreet and chastened
appearance, who glides respectfully from one archway to another,
carrying a broom and a tin pail, or--alas for the goings-on that a
cloistered cell may conceal behind its art-muslin curtains!--a tankard
containing some gentleman's morning ale.
In one corner, close to the Buttery door, you may behold one of the
college cats, which appears to be combining a searching morning toilet
with a course of practical calisthenics; and inside the massive arch of
the gateway stands a majestic figure in a tall hat, whom appreciative
Americans usually mistake for the Master, but who in reality occupies
the far more onerous and responsible post of Head Porter.
Perhaps the greatest variation from the normal is to be observed on a
Saturday morning. Then the scene is brightened by the vision of an
occasional washerwoman, who totters bravely at one end of a heavy
basket, what time her lord and master (who has temporarily abandoned his
favourite street-corner and donned Sabbath attire for this, his weekly
contribution to the work of the world) sulkily supports the other.
Undergraduates, too, are more in evidence than on other days. On most
mornings they either stay indoors, to work or sleep, or else go outside
the college altogether. "Loitering" in the courts is not encouraged by
the authorities. Not that the undergraduate minds that; but it will
probably cost him half-a-crown every time he does so, not because he
loiters but because he smokes.
The Old Court of St. Benedict's College--it is hardly necessary to say
that we are in Cambridge and not in Oxford: otherwise we should have
said "Quad"--presents to us on the present occasion a very fair sample
of a Saturday morning crowd. The observant eye of the Dean, looking down
(like Jezebel) from an upper chamber, can discern--
1. Three washerwomen, with the appurtenances thereof.
2. One small boy delivering _The Granta_.
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE
I. NAVAL MANOEUVRES 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
XX. SINFUL WASTE OF A PENNY STAMP 372
BOOK ONE
DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL
NOT ENDURE
A MAN'S MAN
CHAPTER I
NAVAL MANOEUVRES
A University college varies its facial expression about as frequently as
The Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well.
This remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and
luncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable
grassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside.
Their stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather than diminished by the
glimpse of an occasional flying figure in a cap and gown, or the
spectacle of a middle-aged female of a discreet and chastened
appearance, who glides respectfully from one archway to another,
carrying a broom and a tin pail, or--alas for the goings-on that a
cloistered cell may conceal behind its art-muslin curtains!--a tankard
containing some gentleman's morning ale.
In one corner, close to the Buttery door, you may behold one of the
college cats, which appears to be combining a searching morning toilet
with a course of practical calisthenics; and inside the massive arch of
the gateway stands a majestic figure in a tall hat, whom appreciative
Americans usually mistake for the Master, but who in reality occupies
the far more onerous and responsible post of Head Porter.
Perhaps the greatest variation from the normal is to be observed on a
Saturday morning. Then the scene is brightened by the vision of an
occasional washerwoman, who totters bravely at one end of a heavy
basket, what time her lord and master (who has temporarily abandoned his
favourite street-corner and donned Sabbath attire for this, his weekly
contribution to the work of the world) sulkily supports the other.
Undergraduates, too, are more in evidence than on other days. On most
mornings they either stay indoors, to work or sleep, or else go outside
the college altogether. "Loitering" in the courts is not encouraged by
the authorities. Not that the undergraduate minds that; but it will
probably cost him half-a-crown every time he does so, not because he
loiters but because he smokes.
The Old Court of St. Benedict's College--it is hardly necessary to say
that we are in Cambridge and not in Oxford: otherwise we should have
said "Quad"--presents to us on the present occasion a very fair sample
of a Saturday morning crowd. The observant eye of the Dean, looking down
(like Jezebel) from an upper chamber, can discern--
1. Three washerwomen, with the appurtenances thereof.
2. One small boy delivering _The Granta_.