Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple (Classic Reprint)

LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM CHAPTER I INTRODUCES MR. LEWISHAM THE opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third-and Mr. Lewisham. is seen at his studies. It was ten years ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street. He was called "Mr." to distinguis~ him from the bigger boys, whose duty it was to learn, and it was a matter of stringent regulation that he should be addressed as " Sir." He wore ready-made clothes, his black jacket of rigid line was dusted about the front and sleeves with scholastic chalk, and his face was downy and his moustache incipient. He was a passable-looking ITable of Contents CONTENTS; CHAPTER rAGE; I Introduces Mr Lewisham ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? I; II "As the Wind Blows" 11; III The Wonderful Discovery ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 22; IV Raised Eyebrows 28; V Hesitations 37; VI The Scandalous Ramble 43; ? VII The Reckoning 58; VIII The Career Prevails 70; IX Alice Heydinger 78; X In the Gallery of Old Iron ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 85·; XI Manifestations 91; XII Lewisham is Unaccountable ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 106; XIII Lewisham Insists J 09; XIV Mr Lagune's Point of View ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? 119; XV Love in the Streets 126; XVI Miss Heydinger's Private Thoughts ???????? 136; ~VII In the Raphael Gallery ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? 141; XVIII The Friends of Progress Meet ? ? ? ? ?? 147; XIX Lewisham's Solution ?????????? 162; XX The Careeris Suspended ?????????????? 171; XXI Home I ? 181; XXII Epithalamy 184; XXIII Mr Chaffery at Home 191; XXIV The Campaign