Book/Printed Material Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion,
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Image 1 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion,- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 2 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, Class_ Boole_ GpigM 0 _ COPYRIGHT DEPOSm po- Contributor: North, John
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Image 3 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion,- Contributor: North, John
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Image 7 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY A SATIRE AND A DIVERSION By JOHN NORTH BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD COMPANY PUBLISHERS- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 8 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, Copyright, 1926 By SMALL, MAYNARD COMPANY (Incorporated) i O*) Printed in the United States of America THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. THE BOSTON BOOKBINDING COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. ©Cl A901190 JS I- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 9 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, TO G. B. THIS STORY OF THE RISE AND FALL OF DAVID CRUMP- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 10 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, NOTE: The characters in this story are fictitious.- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 11 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, CONTENTS CHAPTIR PACK I. The Boot 9 II. Mr. Crump’s Dark Hour 17 III. The Great Effulgence 29 IV. Place de L’Opera 41 V. Crump Resartus 51 VI. Mr. Marcus Faithful 60...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 12 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion,- Contributor: North, John
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Image 13 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, CHAPTER I THE BOOT M R. DAVID CRUMP stood over his suit-case and regarded it meditatively. Hair-brushes, comb, tooth-brush, tooth¬ paste,” he chanted, and paused. Ah, my hair oil! Mustn’t forget my...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 14 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY master that head of hair: a shaggy-looking brute you are; and your chin’s black and your cheeks are blue and your eyes are like pim¬ ples; and your teeth,...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 15 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE BOOT to deduce from it where resided the controlling spirit of Mr. Crump’s suburban dwelling. Millie, I want you to get rid of this con¬ founded wardrobe of yours. I won’t...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 16 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY post which nightly illumined his suburban retreat. He snapped down the lid of his suit¬ case, swept it off the ground, and made for the door. On the threshold...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 17 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE BOOT front door with a capacious string bag con¬ cealed about her person, ready for the fray. The true light of battle shone in her eyes when she caught her first...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 18 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY Paris!” The word hardly emerged from his wife’s lips; she seemed afraid to let it fall outright because it might break like a bubble in the air. It was...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 19 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE BOOT motherhood; for no child of his had ever been born to her. And now this sudden flight. Her scheme of things went awry; a sense of loneliness overcame her. But...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 20 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY Millie, I’ll bring it off, or die!” and kissed her, and rushed out of the room. He saw a figure flit past the glass-panelled front door as he picked...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 21 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, CHAPTER II MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR F OR nearly twenty years past Mr. Crump, in normal circumstances, had never arrived at Cannon Street Station later than 8.40 a.m. At that hour the...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 22 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY of sunshine across a leaden sky. Nor was sun¬ set ever unduly delayed. These pretty girls, Mr. Crump invariably had occasion to note, never preserved for long the regularity...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 23 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR Luxury, that’s what it is. I could put up with a great deal if-” He broke off, and seemed to shrivel up, body and soul. I was forgetting,”...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 24 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY freedom, and tried hard to recollect the sum total of his liquid assets. The ’bus skirted St. Paul’s, and his eyes roamed its massive lines and contours with the...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 25 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR of a personage, now carried a flaming sword in Mr. Crump’s febrile imagination. Mr. Crump was an outcast, an intruder. Late of the Morning Star,” thought Mr. Crump...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 26 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY it was his own property, but he had not had the heart to bring it away with him. Day after day, year in and year out, he had turned...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 27 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR viciously slammed the door, and followed the boy down the corridor. Bold knaves thrive,” he muttered as he went along; bold knaves thrive. I ought to have known...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 28 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY Denning was merely a figure-head in the tentacular advertisement-extracting organisa¬ tion which he controlled. He did not work on paper; he hated the sight of paper; he had no...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 29 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR I’m sorry, old man.” Mr. Crump put his hand to his throat and wrenched at his collar; he wanted air; the blow had laid him low. He knew...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 30 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY in your observation of this self-evident fact.” By a severe exercise of his power of self- control Denning contrived to keep his eyes off Mr. Crump’s collar and tie....- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 31 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, MR. CRUMP’S DARK HOUR other, as man to man. In Mr. Crump’s tiny eyes there gleamed a new defiance; he stood his ground until Denning, almost abashed, turned away. To a man...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 32 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY street again. He walked into the first tea- shop he saw, and ordered a cup of tea. He felt better after it, and took out of his pocket the...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 33 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, CHAPTER III THE GREAT EFFULGENCE M R. CRUMP spent the rest of the morn¬ ing tramping the streets of London. It was his first experience of that feeling of independence which, earlier...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 34 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY o’clock. He wished to heaven he had gone to a first-rate restaurant for lunch, where a change of atmosphere might have helped him to fight against that feeling of...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 35 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE GREAT EFFULGENCE at the cash desk with an air of resolution which served to indicate that some new purpose had come into his life. His next half-hour was crowded with incident....- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 36 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY You’re getting on,” he murmured. But —quo vadis?” And immediately fell to wondering whether or no he had got this quite right. For once in a way he had...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 37 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE GREAT EFFULGENCE practise saying, Some hot water, please,” with the requisite degree of hauteur. The hot water arrived in due course, but remained untouched on the washstand, where it passed into...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 38 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY restaurant. He was satisfied with the result of his investigations; he had narrowed down his search considerably; and was proud to realise that he had a keen analytical turn...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 39 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, THE GREAT EFFULGENCE up at the scintillating electric signs; they winked at him, gaily, knowingly. Whisky’s no good to me,” he growled. What I want is the women and the mothers and...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926
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Image 40 of Girl or boy; a satire and a diversion, GIRL OR BOY not know that he was on the verge of the most sublime moment of his life, when the blank in his despairing mind would be filled with a great...- Contributor: North, John
- Date: 1926