Max Pemberton

Name: A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1
Author: Max Pemberton

A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

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“A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1”, published in 1896, is a work by Max Pemberton. It explores elements such as Nicolas Steele, Bedad and Scandal.

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ No man, they say, is a hero to his own valet. Maybe they speak truth, though, for my part, I wouldn't pass that for a good saying. Scandal goes as the crow flies, while a reputation for what they call virtue is often long on the road. Sometimes she never gets there at all—a trick, I fancy, she played upon Sir Nicolas Steele. The world has called him most things, from blackmailer down to thief. There aren't many mortal sins which have not been written against his name at one time or other. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ He was lively enough then, and all his depression and melancholy seemed troubles of a year rather than that of twenty-four hours ago.
"Bedad," said he, as I mixed him a whiskey and soda and gave him his smoking-coat, "'tis the best little woman in London, she is, and the merriest. I haven't stopped laughing since I left the house; yet what I laughed at, God only knows. That's the way of a witty woman. Her laugh is like the song of a bird in spring. You don't ask why the bird sings, but you tune yourself up to the chorus. I'll forget that I was ever in Ireland if I am with her long." ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ I feared every hour to hear of him doing something foolish in London; and I know that he slept bad, for more than one night passed and he never got out of his arm-chair. As for the days, those he spent moping over the fire, a picture of dejection that cut your heart to see. Save one little woman—and God knows what he owed to her—there wasn't a human being in all the city who cared a button whether he was alive or dead. But Lilian More was a friend in a thousand. I believe that she saved the life of Sir Nicolas Steele. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ You couldn't open a society paper without finding some chatter, which was like fuel to the fire of their talk. Old Lord Heresford swore he'd horsewhip him in the club; the Dublin people posted him for a swindler; there was a dozen versions of the card trouble which had driven us out of Ireland; a hundred tongues could tell you all about Margaret King, the woman who was the first to set the scandal going. Most men would have sunk under circumstances such as these; Nicky Steele did nothing of the sort. He took a two-pair back by Gower Street, and waited for a fairer wind. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ THE FRIENDSHIP OF LILIAN MORE I have met a good many in my time who professed to know a lot about Sir Nicolas Steele. I am not going to contradict them here, nor do I wish to write the life of a man whom I have served, on and off, for more years than I care to remember. If ever that's to be done, it must be the business of one who got his learning at school. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ A strange man he is, too, as full of tales as a bowl of good punch of whiskey. Ye must just talk sweetly to the old lady down stairs, and see what ye can do. 'Tis not much I have at the moment, but I'll not forget her when quarter-day is here. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ Do you know I've a good mind to ask you where you keep the pig?"
"And wouldn't I be glad to tell you that he was under the table," said he; "'tis not me that has the money to think of pigs just now. Bedad, it's myself I'll be taking to market if times don't change. Will ye be smoking, Mr. Connoley? We've tobacco still in the ship, and that's something."
Connoley, you must know, was the queerest fish I've ever seen out of Billingsgate. He was a long, lean man, with his left hand cut off at the wrist, and his face tattooed by the roots of his beard until it looked like the chest of a sailor. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ You don't forget that Easter is three weeks off. There's plenty who'd be glad to see you in Paris just now."
"'Tis truth ye speak," he replied, "and if I had the money, this very night should see me moving. But what would I do in Paris with a five-pound note for my luggage? 'Tis greedy as a woman is that same city. And ten days yet to the, quarter! The devil take the luck we're having!"
"You don't hope to hear from Mr. Ames, sir?"
"'Twould be a miracle if I did, for 'tis two hundred that he owes me. Bedad, an artist who pays his debts should be put in a museum. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 1 (1896)

“ I'll tell him you've good company, and that we will recommend him. It's astonishing how many wine merchants live on recommendations, sir. One chap who can't pay recommends another who don't mean to pay, and so they keep the ball rolling. ”

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