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Over Bemerton's; an Easy-Going Chronicle BEMERTON'S XIj^ V '^ Ilj U v^jTtL J^ 6(5 23 i CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM THE BOOKS OF GEORGE MORGAN WELCH '03 COLONEL Judge Advocate General's Department Army of the United States PR 6023.015909""'"""""'™^ °**"m™ m"" *' '" **"y-9°'"8 chronicle. 3 1924 013 642 602 ... Cornell University Library The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013642602 MACMILLAN'S STANDARD LIBRARY OVER BEMERTON'S BY THE SAME AUTHOR Listener's Lure The Open Road The Friendly Town The Gentlest Art Fireside and Sunshine Character and Comedy The Ladies' Pageant A Wanderer in Holland A Wanderer in London Anne's Terrible Goqd-Naturb — OVER BEMERTON'S AN EASY-GOING CHRONICLE BY E. V. LUCAS "IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR HUMAH BEINGS NOT TO INFLUENCI BACH other: we ARE all links IN A CHAIN." Observcr's Comtr NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Lb CorvncHT, 1908, By the MACMILLAN COMPANY. S«t up and electrotyped. Published October, 1908, Reprinted December , twice, igoS ; February, September, 1909 ; September, X9X0 ; September, 19x3. 3. S. CaBbing Go. — Berwicic & Smith Oo. Norwood, Ms8B., n.B.A. CONTENTS CHAP. PAG« I. One traveller returns and finds a home in Westminster i II. iNTRODUaNG THE READER TO MR. AND MRS. Wynne, a county cricketer, a suffragette, an heir of the ages, and an angel . , lo III. ITHE HAUNTS OF MEN REVISITED AND THE FIRST BeMERTONIAN NUGGET 20 rv. Describing Mr. and Mrs. Duckie, Alf Pinto, Beatrice, and Ern ...... 32 V. Mr. Dabney of The Balance lets himself GO 40 VI. Mr. Bemerton confers upon me the freedom of his treasury 54 VII. Recalls old struggles in the early days of Grace and introduces a tyrant from Lud- low 62 VIII. I meet an old friend and receive a lesson in philosophy 72 IX. How Mrs. Frank tried her innocent games ON ONE OF THE GREAT ONES OF THE EARTH . 8l V vi OVER BEMERTON'S CHAP. '*" X. A HERO-WORSHIPPER AGAIN GLIMPSES HIS HERO, AFTER MANY YEARS 9' XI. Mr. Bemerton's first bed book brings us INTO THE COMPANY OF QUAINT AND LEARNED gentlemen lOI XII. THESPIS sends me two REPRESENTATIVES ON THE SAME DAY AND MONOPOLISES OUR ATTENTION . II4 XIII. I GO INTO BUSINESS PRO TEM, READ A GOOD POEM UNDER DIFFICULTY, AND LEARN SOME- THING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SECOND- HAND BOOKSELLER I27 XIV. The linkedness of life is illustrated, and I BECOME A MONEY-LENDER 137 XV. Mr. Duckie, with his napkin on his arm, SUGGESTS A SCHEME FOR HUMAN HAPPINESS . 148 XVI. Mr. Dabney of The Balance meets more THAN HIS MATCH, AND FINDS A RESCUER . IS4 XVII. In WHICH, AFTER EXCEEDINGLY TEDIOUS TALK ABOUT THE WISE EXPENDITURE OF SUPERFLUOUS CASH, AN IDLER IS SET TO WORK . 164 XVIII. We ASSIST AT A FUNCTION IN THE MODERN SMITHFIELD, but NOT QUITE TO THE DEATH . 1 75 XIX. Some latter-day children are provided with VERY CONGENIAL MATERIAL FOR LAUGHTER . 188 XX. An unexpected cheque leads to plans of TRAVEL, AND NAOMI AND I ACCEPT A RESPONSI- BILITY 198 XXI, We are WHIRLED AWAY BY THE 2.20 FROM Charing Cross and meet the Queen of the Adriatic 208 CONTENTS ru CHAT, PACE XXII. Mk. Bemerton's second bed book solaces me with the odd and humane humours OF Stuarts and Tudors .... 219 XXIII, Miss Azure Verity and Mr. Dabney of The Balance continue to keep my mind to a single subject 231 XXIV. With Mr. Bemerton's assistance I take REFUGE AMID A GALLANT COMPANY OF SEA DOGS 239 XXV. I ASSIST AT TWO WEDDINGS AND HAVE THE BEST OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTRASTING THE GRAVE AND THE GAY 248 XXVI. Mr. Dabney again suffers, and the younger GENERATION DOES NOT KNOCK AT THE DOOR BUT WALKS RIGHT IN AND TALKS EXTRAORDI- NARY STRAIGHT TALK 263 XXVII. Miss Gold shows me the way 274 XXVIII. Reaching a point where my history begins TO BE worth recording, I CEASE TO NAR- RATE IT 282 OVER BEMERTON'S CHAPTER I ONE TBAVELLER RETURNS AND FINDS A HOME IN WESTMINSTER "TVTR. FALCONER," said Naomi to Mrs. i-Vx Duckie, "wants quiet, clean rooms and the simplest cooking. Rarely'^ anything but breakfast, and that very light. It must be in this neighbourhood, so as to be near Queen Anne's Gate," Mrs. Duckie said that hers were the quietest rooms in London and almost the nearest to Queen Anne's Gate: certainly the nearest quiet rooms. As for her cooking, although she had of course in her time served up for dinner parties of ten or a dozen, when she was with Canon Lyme, she was famous for her small happetising meals too. If Mr. Dabney was only up and dressed we might ask him. Mr. Dabney had the rooms above mine — or, I should say, above those which (as I could see) 2 OVER BEMERTON'S Naomi intended should be mine in about five minutes — but being a gentleman on the press who kept very late hours, he did not appear till nearly lunch time; — all gentlemen who use their heads, said Mrs. Duckie, needing their full eight hoiurs, if not nine. As for herself, she could do with six or seven; but Duckie wanted his full eight, and had them too, coming as he did from a sleepy stock. She had known him of a Satur- day night when he had slep' for a good ten. "I also like to get up late," I said, "but that is owing to my misforttme in being unable to sleep well. I suffer very badly from insomnia." , "Yes," said Naomi, "and that is one reason why I brought you first to these rooms, because of the advantage of living over a second-hand bookseller's shop. Don't you see that there will always be something to read? When you can't sleep," she hvurried on, "and you are tired of all your own books, as one then is, you have only to get up, light a candle, slip on your dressing-gown" (Naomi's mind is all hopefulness and practical method), "and go down to the shop for as many others as you want. Because of course you will become friends with the bookseller directly. You always do." "All very well; but how if the bookseller only rents the groimd floor and basement and lives four miles away in Harringay with the key under his pillow? which as a matter of fact he does, for Mrs. — er — Mrs. — told me so while you were looking at the bathroom. What then, Naomi?" ONE TRAVELLER RETURNS 3 "Oh, I don't think anything of that," she said: "why, he'll give you a duplicate key within a week. And look," she went on, "what splendid cupboards those are, and it's a Lambert grate too, and it's known that they throw the heat right out into the room" (Naomi has no scepticism in her, and she remembers so many advertisements), "and it is so convenient to have the bedroom and the bathroom leading out of each other. It is a good bath, too : the hot water comes at once." "How long does it run hot?" I asked. "Dear Kent," she cried, now as completely on the side of the landlady as if they were in partner- ship, "you are so suspicious. It keeps hot all the time. I tried it." Mrs. Duckie corroborated. "There isn't another house within a mile," she said, "which lets rooms that has a bathroom like ours. It was put in by the landlord when he thought of living here himself, and then of course he had his accident and married the nurse and settled down at Hendon for life. And though I wish him nothing but happiness, it's an accident that I've found it in my heart to be very thankful for, laying in that beautiful bath of a Saturday night." "After the books and the bathroom," Naomi broke in, "the best thing is the comer position. The windows look right along two streets. Think how interesting that will be sometitnes. Because I shall put your table in the comer, so that you can look up from your reading and see out of both equally well." 4 OVER BEMERTON'S I mentioned something about draughts. "Oh no," said Naomi; "there will be india- rubber piping put all round, and sandbags over the cracks." "They are such a violent red," I said. "Yes, of course, when you buy them," said Naomi, who thinks ahead by instinct, "but I shall cover them for you. I saw some stuff at Libnett's the other day. I think piu-ple is the colour for this room, and blue for the bedroom. Yes, purple and blue. I will send for a book of patterns at once, and we can choose them to-morrow morning when the Ught is good." "But the 'Goat and Compasses' opposite," I said, determined to be as difi&cult as I could, "isn't that rather near?" "Not a better conducted house in London," Mrs. Duckie at once broke in. "The landlord and the landlady are as nice a couple as God Almighty ever set behind a bar. He was butler to Lord Latimer, and she was the cook, and his Lordship left them each five himdred pounds. They've only been there eight months, and already the place is so changed you wouldn't know it.
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