{"product_id":"2940015732931","title":"A MAN'S MAN","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   BOOK ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL NOT ENDURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          I. NAVAL MANOEUVRES                                      3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         II. INTRODUCES THE HEROINE OF THIS NARRATIVE             22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        III. JIMMY MARRABLE                                       28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         IV. AN UNDERSTUDY                                        49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          V. THE JOY OF BATTLE                                    61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   BOOK TWO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                            _FORTITER IN RE_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         VI. KNIGHT-ERRANTRY _À LA MODE_                          81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        VII. THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE                               112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VIII. A BENEFIT PERFORMANCE                               130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         IX. _LITERA SCRIPTA MANET_                              146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          X. THE END OF AN ODYSSEY                               157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   BOOK THREE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                           _SUAVITER IN MODO_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         XI. SEALED ORDERS                                       179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        XII. A CHANGE OF ATMOSPHERE                              195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XIII. _VARIUM ET MUTABILE_                                223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        XIV. BUSINESS ONLY                                       247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   BOOK FOUR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                           THE UNJUST STEWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         XV. DEPUTATIONS--WITH A DIFFERENCE                      263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        XVI. IN WHICH CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG, AND JOAN\u003cbr\u003e                    MISSES HER CUE                               292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XVII. IN WHICH CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, AND HUGHIE\u003cbr\u003e                    MISSES HIS TRAIN                             320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XVIII. _EX MACHINA_                                        339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        XIX. IN WHICH LOVE FLIES OUT OF THE WINDOW               354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e         XX. SINFUL WASTE OF A PENNY STAMP                       372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                BOOK ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                      DEALS WITH A STUFF THAT WILL\u003cbr\u003e                               NOT ENDURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              A MAN'S MAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                               CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                            NAVAL MANOEUVRES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA University college varies its facial expression about as frequently as\u003cbr\u003eThe Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and\u003cbr\u003eluncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable\u003cbr\u003egrassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside.\u003cbr\u003eTheir stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather than diminished by the\u003cbr\u003eglimpse of an occasional flying figure in a cap and gown, or the\u003cbr\u003espectacle of a middle-aged female of a discreet and chastened\u003cbr\u003eappearance, who glides respectfully from one archway to another,\u003cbr\u003ecarrying a broom and a tin pail, or--alas for the goings-on that a\u003cbr\u003ecloistered cell may conceal behind its art-muslin curtains!--a tankard\u003cbr\u003econtaining some gentleman's morning ale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one corner, close to the Buttery door, you may behold one of the\u003cbr\u003ecollege cats, which appears to be combining a searching morning toilet\u003cbr\u003ewith a course of practical calisthenics; and inside the massive arch of\u003cbr\u003ethe gateway stands a majestic figure in a tall hat, whom appreciative\u003cbr\u003eAmericans usually mistake for the Master, but who in reality occupies\u003cbr\u003ethe far more onerous and responsible post of Head Porter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the greatest variation from the normal is to be observed on a\u003cbr\u003eSaturday morning. Then the scene is brightened by the vision of an\u003cbr\u003eoccasional washerwoman, who totters bravely at one end of a heavy\u003cbr\u003ebasket, what time her lord and master (who has temporarily abandoned his\u003cbr\u003efavourite street-corner and donned Sabbath attire for this, his weekly\u003cbr\u003econtribution to the work of the world) sulkily supports the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUndergraduates, too, are more in evidence than on other days. On most\u003cbr\u003emornings they either stay indoors, to work or sleep, or else go outside\u003cbr\u003ethe college altogether. \"Loitering\" in the courts is not encouraged by\u003cbr\u003ethe authorities. Not that the undergraduate minds that; but it will\u003cbr\u003eprobably cost him half-a-crown every time he does so, not because he\u003cbr\u003eloiters but because he smokes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Old Court of St. Benedict's College--it is hardly necessary to say\u003cbr\u003ethat we are in Cambridge and not in Oxford: otherwise we should have\u003cbr\u003esaid \"Quad\"--presents to us on the present occasion a very fair sample\u003cbr\u003eof a Saturday morning crowd. The observant eye of the Dean, looking down\u003cbr\u003e(like Jezebel) from an upper chamber, can discern--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Three washerwomen, with the appurtenances thereof.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. 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