The Secret of the League. Bramah Ernest
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Ernest Bramah
The Secret of the League
The Story of a Social War
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664564153
Table of Contents
THE PERIOD, AND THE COMING OF WINGS
MISS LISLE TELLS A LONG POINTLESS STORY
THE ORDER OF ST MARTIN OF TOURS
THE LAST CHANCE AND THE COUNSEL OF EXPEDIENCE
THE INCIDENT OF THE 13TH OF JANUARY
CHAPTER I
IRENE
"I suppose I am old-fashioned"—there was a murmur of polite dissent from all the ladies present, except the one addressed—"Oh, I take it as a compliment nowadays, I assure you; but when I was a girl a young lady would have no more thought of flying than of"—she paused almost on a note of pained surprise at finding the familiar comparison of a lifetime cut off—"well, of standing on her head."
"No," replied the young lady in point, with the unfeeling candour that marked the youthful spirit of the age, "because it wasn't invented. But you went bicycling, and your mothers were very shocked at first."
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