Mr. Meeson's WillOnly a storyteller as preternaturally gifted as action-adventure master H. Rider Haggard could turn a story about a legal battle over publishing rights into a gripping page-turner. Mr. Meeson's Will offers a fascinating glimpse into the legal rights of authors in the nineteenth century -- and a swashbuckling maritime misadventure that comes with a plethora of unpredictable consequences. |
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... Augusta 's Little Sister Chapter I V - Augusta's Decision Chapter V - The RM S. Kangaroo Chapter VI - Mr. T ombey Goes Forward Chapter VII - The Catastrophe Chapter VIII - Kerguelen Land Chapter [X - Augusta to the Rescue Chapter X ...
... Augusta 's Little Sister Chapter I V - Augusta's Decision Chapter V - The RM S. Kangaroo Chapter VI - Mr. T ombey Goes Forward Chapter VII - The Catastrophe Chapter VIII - Kerguelen Land Chapter [X - Augusta to the Rescue Chapter X ...
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It employed more than two thousand hands, and its works, lit throughout with the electric light, cover two acres and a quarter of land. One hundred commercial travellers, at three pounds a week and a commission, went forth east and west ...
It employed more than two thousand hands, and its works, lit throughout with the electric light, cover two acres and a quarter of land. One hundred commercial travellers, at three pounds a week and a commission, went forth east and west ...
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... was an establishment created for and devoted to money-making, and the fact was kept studiously and even insolently before the eyes of everybody connected with it—which was, of course, as it should be, in this happy land of commerce.
... was an establishment created for and devoted to money-making, and the fact was kept studiously and even insolently before the eyes of everybody connected with it—which was, of course, as it should be, in this happy land of commerce.
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There had been two others, both boys, who had come into the world between Augusta and Jeannie, but they had both preceded their father to the land of shadows. Mrs. Smithers, had, fortunately for herself, a life interest in a sum of ...
There had been two others, both boys, who had come into the world between Augusta and Jeannie, but they had both preceded their father to the land of shadows. Mrs. Smithers, had, fortunately for herself, a life interest in a sum of ...
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... as though loth to leave the land where she was born. But presently she seemed to gather up her energies and to grow conscious of the thousands and thousands of miles of wide tossing water, which stretched between her and the far-off ...
... as though loth to leave the land where she was born. But presently she seemed to gather up her energies and to grow conscious of the thousands and thousands of miles of wide tossing water, which stretched between her and the far-off ...
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Chapter VI Mr Tombey Goes Forward | 57 |
Chapter VII The Catastrophe | 67 |
Chapter VIII Kerguelen Land | 79 |
Chapter XIII Eustace Buys a Paper | 127 |
Chapter XIV At HanoverSquare | 133 |
Chapter XV Eustace Consults a Lawyer | 143 |
Chapter XVI Short on Legal Etiquette | 154 |
Chapter XVII How Augusta was Filed | 162 |
Chapter XVIII Augusta Flies | 172 |
Chapter XIX Meeson V Addison and Another | 178 |
Chapter XX James Breaks Down | 187 |
Chapter IX Augusta to the Rescue | 90 |
Chapter X The Last of Mr Meeson | 100 |
Chapter XI Rescued | 110 |
Chapter XII Southampton Quay | 118 |
Chapter XXI Grant as Prayed | 199 |
Chapter XXII St Georges HanoverSquare | 213 |
Chapter XXIII Meesons Once Again | 225 |
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Addison answered appeared asked Augusta began better Bill boat bowed called captain certainly child clerk coming course Court dear Dick document don't door dress Eustace evidence executed eyes face fact feel find first followed fortune girl give gone hand head heart hope hour hundred James John Johnnie Judge Kangaroo Lady Holmhurst Land learned leave light living looked Lord matter mean Meeson mind Miss Smithers nature never once opened passed perhaps person plaintiff poor pounds present Probate publishing rose round rush sailors seemed seen ship Short shoulders side sight sitting speak standing stood suddenly suppose sure tattooed tell thing thought told Tombey took turned whole wish witness woman wonder writing young