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Cynthia's Chauffeur
The story unfolds on Derby Day in London and introduces an American girl named Cynthia Vanrenen and her English chaperon, Mrs. Devar.
"Cynthia's Chauffeur" by Louis Tracy is a novel. The story unfolds on Derby Day in London and introduces an American girl named Cynthia Vanrenen and her English chaperon, Mrs. Devar.
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Derby Day fell that year on the first Wednesday in June. By a whim of the British climate, the weather was fine; in fact, no rain had fallen on southern England since the previous Sunday. Wise after the event, the newspapers published cheerful “forecasts,” and certain daring “experts” discussed the probabilities of a heat wave. So London, on that bright Wednesday morning, was agog with excitement over its annual holiday; and at such a time London is the gayest and liveliest city in the world.
And then, wholly independent of the weather, there was the Great Question.
From the hour when the first ’bus rumbled Citywards until some few seconds before three o’clock in the afternoon the mass of the people seemed to find delight in asking and answering it. The Question was ever the same; but the answer varied. In its way, the Question formed a tribute to the advance of democracy. It caused strangers to exchange opinions and pleasantries in crowded trains and omnibuses. It placed peers and commoners on an equality. During some part of the day it completely eclipsed all other topics of conversation.
Thus, young Lord Medenham made no pretense of shirking it while he stood on the steps of his father’s mansion in Cavendish Square and watched his chauffeur stowing a luncheon basket beneath the front seat of the Mercury 38.
“You know a bit about racing, Tomkinson,” he said, smiling at the elderly butler who had brought the basket out of the house. “What’s going to win?”
Contents
- 01Cynthia’s Chauffeur
- 02Chapter I
- 03The Hired Car
- 04Chapter II
- 05The First Day’s Run
- 06Chapter III
- 07Some Emotions—Without a Moral
- 08Chapter IV
- 09Shadows—With Occasional Gleams
- 10Chapter V
- 11A Flurry on the Mendips
- 12Chapter VI
- 13A Midsummer Night’s Vagaries
- 14Chapter VII
- 15Wherein Cynthia Takes Her Own Line
- 16Chapter VIII
- 17Breakers Ahead
- 18Chapter IX
- 19On the Wye
- 20Chapter X
- 21The Hidden Founts of Evil
- 22Chapter XI
- 23The Parting of the Ways
- 24Chapter XII
- 25Masques, Ancient and Modern
- 26Chapter XIII
- 27Wherein Wrath Beguiles Good Judgment
- 28Chapter XIV
- 29—And Good Judgment Yields to Folly
- 30Chapter XV
- 31The Outcome
- 32Chapter XVI
- 33The End of One Tour: The Beginning of Another
- 34The End
- 35A Few of
- 36Grosset & Dunlap’s Great Books at Little Prices
- 37A Few of
- 38Grosset & Dunlap’s Great Books at Little Prices
- 39A Few of
- 40Grosset & Dunlap’s Great Books at Little Prices
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- 42Grosset & Dunlap’s Great Books at Little Prices
- 43The Novels of
- 44George Barr McCUTCHEON
- 45Kate Douglas Wiggin’s Stories of Pure Delight
- 46Transcriber’s Note:
About this edition
- Author
- Louis Tracy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 300 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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