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Title: M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
Author: G.J. Whyte-Melville
Release Date: February 14, 2004 [EBook #11085]
Language: English
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M. or N.
"_Similia similibus curantur_"
By G.J. Whyte-Melville
CONTENTS
CHAP.
I. "Small and Early"
II. "Nightfall"
III. Tom Ryfe
IV. Gentleman Jim
V. The Cracksman's Checkmate
VI. A Reversionary Interest
VII. Dick Stanmore
VIII. Nina
IX. The Usual Difficulty
X. The Fairy Queen
XI. In the Scales
XII. "A Cruel Parting"
XIII. Sixes and Sevens
XIV. The Officers' Mess
XV. Mrs. Stanmore at Home
XVI. "Missing--A Gentleman"
XVII. "Wanted--A Lady"
XVIII. "The Coming Queen"
XIX. An Incubus
XX. "The Little Cloud"
XXI. Furens Quid Faemina
XXII. "Not for Joseph"
XXIII. Anonymous
XXIV. Parted
XXV. Coaxing a Fight
XXVI. Baffled
XXVII. Blinded
XXVIII. Beat
XXIX. Night-Hawks
XXX. Under the Acacias
M. or N.
"_Similia similibus curantur_"
CHAPTER I
"SMALL AND EARLY"
A wild wet night in the Channel, the white waves leaping, lashing, and
tumbling together in that confusion of troubled waters, which nautical
men call a "cross-sea." A dreary, dismal night on Calais sands: faint
moonshine struggling through a low driving scud, the harbour-lights
quenched and blurred in mist. Such a night as bids the trim French
sentry hug himself in his watch-coat, calmly cursing the weather,
while he hums the chorus of a comic opera, driving his thoughts by
force of contrast to the lustrous glow of the wine-shop, the sparkling
eyes and gold ear-rings of Mademoiselle Therese, who presides over
Love and Bacchus therein. Such a night as gives the travellers in the
mail-packet some notion of those ups and downs in life which landsmen
may bless themselves to ignore, as hints to the Queen's Mes
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