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Mrs. Maxon Protests
As she grapples with her feelings and the constraints of societal expectations, Winnie seeks liberation from a life characterized by emotional suppression.
"Mrs. Maxon Protests" by Anthony Hope is a novel. As she grapples with her feelings and the constraints of societal expectations, Winnie seeks liberation from a life characterized by emotional suppression.
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"Inkpat!" She shot out the word in a bitter playfulness, making it serve for the climax of her complaints.
Hobart Gaynor repeated the word—if it could be called a word—after his companion in an interrogative tone.
"Yes, just hopeless inkpat, and there's an end of it!"
Mrs. Maxon leant back as far as the unaccommodating angles of the office chair allowed, looking at her friend and counsellor with a faint yet rather mischievous smile on her pretty face. In the solicitor's big, high, bare room she seemed both small and very dainty. Her voice had trembled a little, but she made a brave effort at gaiety as she explained her cryptic word.
"When a thing's running in your head day and night, week after week, and month after month, you can't use that great long word you lawyers use. Besides, it's so horribly impartial." She pouted over this undesirable quality.
"That's it, Hobart. But you must see it's far too long, besides being, as I say, horribly impartial. So I took to calling it by a pet name of my own. That makes it come over to my side. Do you see?"
"Not quite." He smiled still. He had once been in love with Winnie Maxon, and though that state of feeling as regards her was long past, she still had the power to fascinate and amuse him, even when she was saying things which he suspected of being unreasonable. Lawyers have that suspicion very ready for women.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02"Inkpat!"
- 03Chapter II
- 04A Case of Necessity
- 05Chapter III
- 06'In Solution'
- 07Chapter IV
- 08Keeping a Promise
- 09Chapter V
- 10The Great Allies
- 11Chapter VI
- 12Fruit of the Tree
- 13Chapter VII
- 14A Code and a Theory
- 15Chapter VIII
- 16Subversive
- 17Chapter IX
- 18No Proceedings!
- 19Chapter X
- 20Mauve Envelopes
- 21Chapter XI
- 22An Unmentioned Name
- 23Chapter XII
- 24Christmas in Woburn Square
- 25Chapter XIII
- 26Christmas at Shaylor's Patch
- 27Chapter XIV
- 28A Counsel of Perfection
- 29Chapter XV
- 30Mrs. Nobody
- 31Chapter XVI
- 32A Word Taken at Pleasure
- 33Chapter XVII
- 34The Track of the Raider
- 35Chapter XVIII
- 36Nothing Serious
- 37Chapter XIX
- 38A Point of Honour
- 39Chapter XX
- 40An Heroic Offer
- 41Chapter XXI
- 42Is He a Bully?
- 43Chapter XXII
- 44Judgment Accordingly
- 45Chapter XXIII
- 46The Regiment
- 47Chapter XXIV
- 48An Enlightenment
- 49Chapter XXV
- 50"Perhaps!"
- 51Chapter XXVI
- 52A Friend Departs
- 53Chapter XXVII
- 54A Philosophical Project
- 55Chapter XXVIII
- 56The View from a House
- 57Chapter XXIX
- 58In the Result
- 59By the Same Author
About this edition
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 344 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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