The Prophet of Berkeley Square. Robert Hichens

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       Robert Hichens

      The Prophet of Berkeley Square

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664567215

       CHAPTER I

       MRS. MERILLIA IS CARRIED TO BED

       CHAPTER II

       MALKIEL THE SECOND IS BETRAYED BY THE YOUNG LIBRARIAN

       CHAPTER III

       THE TWO PROPHETS PARTAKE OF “CREAMING FOAM.”

       CHAPTER IV

       THE SECRET WATERS OF THE RIVER MOUSE

       CHAPTER V

       MALKIEL THE SECOND POISONS MISS MINERVA

       CHAPTER VI

       THE OLD ASTRONOMER DISCOURSETH OF THE STARS

       CHAPTER VII

       THE DOUBLE LIFE OF MISS MINERVA

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE PROPHET RECEIVES HIS DIRECTIONS FROM MADAME

       CHAPTER IX

       THE PROPHET BEGINS TO CARRY OUT HIS DIRECTIONS

       CHAPTER X

       THE PROPHET AND MALKIEL THE SECOND CONVERSE BY TELEGRAM

       CHAPTER XI

       MISS MINERVA OPENS HER BOOK OF REVELATION IN A CAB

       CHAPTER XII

       THE ELABORATE MIND OF MISS MINERVA

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE PROPHET IS INTERVIEWED BY TWO KIDS

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE PROPHET JOURNEYS TO THE MOUSE

       CHAPTER XV

       THE PROPHET CREATES A DIVERSION AT HIS OWN EXPENSE

       CHAPTER XVI

       THE PROPHET RETURNS FROM THE MOUSE WITH TWO OLD AND VALUED FRIENDS

       CHAPTER XVII

       MALKIEL THE SECOND IS MISTAKEN FOR A RATCATCHER

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE SILLY LIFE

       CHAPTER XIX

       MRS. MERILLIA HEATS THE POKER

       CHAPTER XX

       THE PROPHET RETIRES FROM BUSINESS

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      The great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon its lofty, brass-bound stand in the bow window of Number One Thousand Berkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars which twinkled in the December sky over frosty London, those guardian stars which always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitude over the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided. The polestar had its eye even now upon the mansion of an adjacent ex-premier, the belt of Orion was not oblivious of a belted earl’s cosy red-brick home just opposite, and the house of a certain famous actor and actress close by had been taken by the Great Bear under its special protection.

      The Prophet’s butler, Mr. Ferdinand—that bulky and veracious gentleman—threw open the latticed windows of the drawing-room and let the cold air rush blithely in. Then he made up the fire carefully, placed a copy of Mr. Malkiel’s Almanac, bound in dull pink and silver brocade by Miss Clorinda Dolbrett of the Cromwell Road, upon a small tulip-wood table near the telescope, patted a sofa cushion affectionately on the head, glanced around with the meditative eye of the butler born not made, and quitted the comfortable apartment with a salaried, but soft, footstep.

      It was a pleasant chamber, this drawing-room of Number One Thousand.


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