Jeremy
and Hamlet
By
HUGH WALPOLE
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923,
BY THE PICTORIAL REVIEW COMPANY
JEREMY AND HAMLET. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO MY FATHER
AND MOTHER
FROM THEIR DEVOTED
FRIEND, THEIR SON
It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sear;
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May
Although it fall and die that night—
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
Ben Jonson
CONTENTS
chapter page I “Come out of the Kitchen” 13 II Conscience Money 36 III The Dance 61 IV Saladin and the Black Bishop 88 V Poodle 110 VI The Night Raiders 130 VII Young Baltimore 155 VIII The Ruffians 176 IX The Picture-Book 207 X Uncle Percy 233 XI The Runaways 258 XII A Fine Day 282
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