The Mayor of Troy
by Arthur Quiller-Couch
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About this eBook
- Author
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 1863-1944
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Lionel Sear
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Mayors -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19751
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19751
- Release Date
- November 10, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — TO MY FRIEND — KENNETH GRAHAM — AND — THE REST OF THE CREW — OF THE — "RICHARD AND EMILY" — AND WITH APOLOGIES TO — THE MAYOR OF — LOSTWITHIEL — A BOROUGH — FOR WHICH I HAVE (WITH CAUSE) — MUCH AFFECTION AND — A VERY HIGH ESTEEM.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.THE MAYOR OF TROY. — PROLOGUE. — CHAPTER I. — OUR MAJOR. — CHAPTER II. — OUR MAYOR. — CHAPTER III. — THE MILLENNIUM. — CHAPTER IV. — HOW THE TROY GALLANTS CHALLENGED THE LOOE DIEHARDS. — CHAPTER V. — INTERFERENCE OF A GUERNSEY MERCHANT. — CHAPTER VI. — MALBROUCK S'EN VA. — CHAPTER VII. — THE BATTLE OF TALLAND COVE. — CHAPTER VIII. — "COME, MY CORINNA, COME!" — CHAPTER IX. — BY LERRYN WATER. — CHAPTER X. — GUNNER SOBEY TURNS LOOSE THE MILLENNIUM. — CHAPTER XI. — THE MAJOR LEAVES US. — CHAPTER XII. — A COLD DOUCHE ON A HOT FIT. — CHAPTER XIII. — A VERY HOT PRESS. — CHAPTER XIV. — THE "VESUVIUS" BOMB. — CHAPTER XV. — UP-CHANNEL. — CHAPTER XVI. — FAREWELL TO ALBION! — CHAPTER XVII. — MISSING! — CHAPTER XVIII. — APOTHEOSIS. — ATTEND — O PASSER BY! — ON THIS — SPOT AS NEARLY AS CAN BE ASCERTAINED — SOLOMON HYMEN, ESQUIRE — SEVEN TIMES MAYOR OF TROY — IN CORNWALL — RELINQUISHED HIS HONOURS — FOR HIS COUNTRY'S NEED — AND RESOLUTELY SACRIFICED — EASE, FRIENDSHIP, FAME — TO EMBARK HIS SOLE MANHOOD — IN HER DEFENCE — AMID THE SURROUNDING MEMORIALS — OF GREECE AND ROME — CHALLENGING — THE SEVEREST VIRTUES OF ANTIQUITY — WITH A BRITON'S RESOLUTION — CHAPTER XIX. — THE RETURN. — REJOICINGS AT TROY — CHAPTER XX. — IN WHICH THE MAJOR LEARNS THAT NO MAN IS NECESSARY. — CHAPTER XXI. — FACES IN WATER. — SACRED — TO THE MEMORY OF — SOLOMON HYMEN, ESQUIRE — SEVEN TIMES MAYOR OF THIS BOROUGH — AND — MAJOR COMMANDING THE TROY VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY — UNFORTUNATELY AND UNTIMELY — SLAIN IN ACTION — OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE NEAR BOULOGNE — ON MAY 15TH, MDCCCIV. — THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION — AMONG HIS SORROWING FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS — OF THE BOROUGH HE, LIVING, ADORNED WITH HIS WISDOM — AND DYING, ENDOWED WITH HIS WEALTH — AS WITH HIS EXAMPLE. — FORTIBUS ET COELUM PATRIA — CHAPTER XXII. — WINDS UP WITH A MERRY-GO-ROUND.
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