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Second String
The story begins in a quaint English town, Meriton, and focuses on the character Jack Rock, a butcher who is reintroducing himself into the local social scene while reflecting on his friendship with Andy Hayes, who returns from years abroad.
"Second String" by Anthony Hope is a novel. The story begins in a quaint English town, Meriton, and focuses on the character Jack Rock, a butcher who is reintroducing himself into the local social scene while reflecting on his friendship with Andy Hayes, who returns from years abroad.
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Jack Rock stood in his shop in High Street. He was not very often to be seen there nowadays; he bred and bought, but he no longer killed, and rarely sold, in person. These latter and lesser functions he left to his deputy, Simpson, for he had gradually developed a bye-trade which took up much of his time, and was no less profitable than his ostensible business. He bought horses, "made" them into hunters, and sold them again. He was a rare judge and a fine rider, and his heart was in this line of work.
However to-day he was in his shop because the Christmas beef was on show. Here were splendid carcasses decked with blue rosettes, red rosettes, or cards of "Honourable Mention;" poor bodies sadly unconscious (as one may suppose all bodies are) of their posthumous glories. Jack Rock, a spruce spare little man with a thin red face and a get-up of the most "horsy" order, stood before them, expatiating to Simpson on their beauties. Simpson, who was as fat as his master was thin, and even redder in the face, chimed in; they were for all the world like a couple of critics hymning the praise of poets who have paid the debt of nature, but are decorated with the insignia of fame. Verily Jack Rock's shop in the days before Christmas might well seem an Abbey or a Pantheon of beasts.
Contents
- 01Second String
- 02By Anthony Hope
- 03Contents.
- 04Second String.
- 05Chapter I.
- 06Home Again.
- 07Chapter II.
- 08A Very Little Hunting.
- 09Chapter III.
- 10The Potent Voice.
- 11Chapter IV.
- 12Settled Programmes.
- 13Chapter V.
- 14Broadening Life.
- 15Chapter VI.
- 16The Worlds of Meriton.
- 17Chapter VII.
- 18Entering for the Race.
- 19Chapter VIII.
- 20Wonderful Words.
- 21Chapter IX.
- 22"Interjection."
- 23Chapter X.
- 24Friends in Need.
- 25Chapter XI.
- 26The Shawl by the Window.
- 27Chapter XII.
- 28Concerning a Stolen Kiss.
- 29Chapter XIII.
- 30A Lover Looks Pale.
- 31Chapter XIV.
- 32Saving the Nation.
- 33Chapter XV.
- 34Love and Fear.
- 35Chapter XVI.
- 36A Choice of Evils.
- 37Chapter XVII.
- 38Reformation.
- 39Chapter XVIII.
- 40Penitence and Problems.
- 41Chapter XIX.
- 42Marked Money.
- 43Chapter XX.
- 44No Good?
- 45Chapter XXI.
- 46The Empty Place.
- 47Chapter XXII.
- 48Grubbing Away.
- 49Chapter XXIII.
- 50A Stop-Gap.
- 51Chapter XXIV.
- 52Pretty Much the Same!
- 53Chapter XXV.
- 54The Last Fight.
- 55Chapter XXVI.
- 56Tales Out of School for Once.
- 57Chapter XXVII.
- 58Not of His Seeking.
- 59Notes on Nelson's New Novels.
About this edition
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 440 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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