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Title: Tatterdemalion

Author: John Galsworthy

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Language: English

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TATTERDEMALION

by

JOHN GALSWORTHY

"Gentillesse cometh fro' God allone."
--_Chaucer_

New York
Charles Scribner's Sons
1920

Copyright, 1917, 1918, 1920, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Ridgway Company
Copyright, 1919, by The New Republic Publishing Co., Inc.
Copyright, 1914, 1916, 1919, by The Atlantic Monthly Co.

[Illustration]

* * * * *

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

VILLA RUBEIN, and Other Stories
THE ISLAND PHARISEES
THE MAN OF PROPERTY
THE COUNTRY HOUSE
FRATERNITY
THE PATRICIAN
THE DARK FLOWER
THE FREELANDS
BEYOND
FIVE TALES
SAINT'S PROGRESS
TATTERDEMALION

A COMMENTARY
A MOTLEY
THE INN OF TRANQUILLITY
THE LITTLE MAN, and Other Satires
A SHEAF
ANOTHER SHEAF
ADDRESSES IN AMERICA: 1919

PLAYS: FIRST SERIES
_and Separately_

THE SILVER BOX
JOY
STRIFE

PLAYS: SECOND SERIES
_and Separately_

THE ELDEST SON
THE LITTLE DREAM
JUSTICE

PLAYS: THIRD SERIES
_and Separately_

THE FUGITIVE
THE PIGEON
THE MOB

A BIT O' LOVE

MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS
MEMORIES. Illustrated

* * * * *

TO
ELIZABETH LUCAS

CONTENTS

PART I.--OF WAR-TIME
PAGE

I. THE GREY ANGEL 3

II. DEFEAT 27

III. FLOTSAM AND JETSAM 51

IV. THE BRIGHT SIDE