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Only a Clod

M. E. Braddon

It opens as a tale of exile, class resentment, and sudden fortune, contrasting a vain young ensign, Harcourt Lowther, with his steadfast valet, Francis Tredethlyn.

"Only a clod" by M. E. Braddon is a novel. It opens as a tale of exile, class resentment, and sudden fortune, contrasting a vain young ensign, Harcourt Lowther, with his steadfast valet, Francis Tredethlyn.

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While Mr. Lowther went to eat his dinner with the hospitable magistrate, Francis Tredethlyn did his work briskly; folding his master’s coats and waistcoats, brushing boots, clearing away little heaps of cigar-ash, and picking up torn scraps of paper and open books cast recklessly upon the floor by a reader who was too badly disposed towards a world that had ill-treated him to find the opinions of any author entirely to his taste.

The soldier whistled that lively melody in praise of Erin’s daughters all the time, and achieved his task with the rapid neatness of a male Cinderella specially endowed by some fairy godmother; and when Mr. Lowther’s humble sitting-room and bed-room were restored to perfect order, his valet retired to his own little apartment, which was a shed-like chamber at the back of the cottage, and a kind of compromise between a dressing-room and a wash-house. Here Mr. Tredethlyn made his toilet, which consisted of a rapid plunge of his head and throat into a tub of cold water, some brisk operations with a cake of yellow soap, accompanied by sputtering and whizzing noises of an alarming character, a little fierce rubbing down with a coarse 12towel, and the smart application of a stiff and implacable-looking hair-brush. When this was done, Francis Tredethlyn put on his jacket, and went out into the garden to smoke his pipe and converse with the convicts.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Master.
  2. 02Chapter II. The Man.
  3. 03Chapter III. Tidings of Home.
  4. 04Chapter IV. Tredethlyn’s Luck.
  5. 05Chapter V. Coming Home.
  6. 06Chapter VI. The End of the World.
  7. 07Chapter VII. Maude Hillary’s Adorers.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. At the Château De Bourbon.
  9. 09Chapter IX. Julia Desmond Makes Herself Agreeable.
  10. 10Chapter X. Coltonslough.
  11. 11Chapter XI. A Very Old Story.
  12. 12Chapter XII. A Modern Gentleman’s Diary.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Caught in the Toils.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. Very Private Theatricals.
  15. 15Chapter XV. A Commercial Crisis.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. A Drama That Was Acted Behind the Scenes.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. Something Like Friendship.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Poor Francis.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Mr. Hillary Speaks His Mind.
  20. 20Chapter XX. An Explanation.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Harcourt Lowther’s Welcome.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Taking It Quietly.
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Tidings of Susan.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. Francis Tredethlyn’s Disinterested Adviser.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. The Road to Ruin.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. A Chilling Reconciliation.
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. Seeing a Ghost.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. “Oh, My Amy! Mine No More!”
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. Entanglements in the Web.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Two Antipholi.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. The Diplomatist’s Policy.
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Harcourt Gathers His First Fruits.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Rosa’s Revelations.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. The Lady at Petersham.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. A Hasty Reckoning.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Poor Frank’s Letter.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. Eleanor Drops in Upon Rosamond.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Gone.
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. Too Late.
  40. 40Chapter XL. An Ignominious Failure.
  41. 41Chapter XLI. Susan’s Good News.
  42. 42Chapter XLII. A Perfect Union.

About this edition

Author
M. E. Braddon
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
450 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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