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Title: Debts of Honor

Author: Maurus Jokai

Translator: Arthur B. Yolland

Release Date: September 24, 2007 [EBook #22757]

Language: English

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WORKS OF MAURUS JOKAI

HUNGARIAN EDITION

DEBTS OF HONOR

_Translated from the Hungarian_

_By_ ARTHUR B. YOLLAND

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

Copyright, 1900, by
DOUBLEDAY & MCCLURE CO.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

In rendering into English this novel of Dr. Jokai's, which many of his
countrymen consider his masterpiece, I have been fortunate enough to
secure the collaboration of my friend, Mr. Zoltan Dunay, a former
colleague, whose excellent knowledge of the English language and
literature marked him out as the most competent and desirable
collaborator.

ARTHUR B. YOLLAND.
BUDAPEST, 1898.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Journal of Desiderius 1
II. The Girl Substitute 30
III. My Right Honorable Uncle 59
IV. The Atheist and the Hypocrite 71
V. The Wild-Creature's Haunt 104
VI. Fruits Prematurely Ripe 114
VII. The Secret Writings 122
VIII. The End of the Beginning 131
IX. Aged at Seventeen 143
X. I and the Demon 148
XI. "Parole d'Honneur" 172
XII. A Glance into a Pistol Barrel 185
XIII. Which Will Convert the Other 199
XIV. Two Girls 225
XV. If He Loves, then Let Him Love 240
XVI. That Ring 249
XVII. The Yellow-robed Woman in the Cards 258
XVIII. The Finger