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Title: Mr. Meeson's Will

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Release Date: April 5, 2004 [EBook #11913]
[Date last updated: March 17, 2005]

Language: English

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MR. MEESON'S WILL

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. AUGUSTA AND HER PUBLISHER

CHAPTER II. HOW EUSTACE WAS DISINHERITED

CHAPTER III. AUGUSTA'S LITTLE SISTER

CHAPTER IV. AUGUSTA'S DECISION

CHAPTER V. THE R.M.S. KANGAROO

CHAPTER VI. MR. TOMBEY GOES FORWARD

CHAPTER VII. THE CATASTROPHE

CHAPTER VIII. KERGUELEN LAND

CHAPTER IX. AUGUSTA TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER X. THE LAST OF MR. MEESON

CHAPTER XI. RESCUED

CHAPTER XII. SOUTHAMPTON QUAY

CHAPTER XIII. EUSTACE BUYS A PAPER

CHAPTER XIV. AT HANOVER SQUARE

CHAPTER XV. EUSTACE CONSULTS A LAWYER

CHAPTER XVI. SHORT ON LEGAL ETIQUETTE

CHAPTER XVII. HOW AUGUSTA WAS FILED

CHAPTER XVIII. AUGUSTA FLIES

CHAPTER XIX. MEESON v. ADDISON AND ANOTHER

CHAPTER XX. JAMES BREAKS DOWN

CHAPTER XXI. GRANT AS PRAYED

CHAPTER XXII. ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER-SQUARE

CHAPTER XXIII. MEESON'S ONCE AGAIN

CHAPTER I.

AUGUSTA AND HER PUBLISHER.

"Now mark you, my masters: this is comedy."--OLD PLAY.

Everybody who has any connection with Birmingham will be acquainted with
the vast publishing establishment still known by the short title of
"Meeson's," which is perhaps the most remarkable institution of the sort
in Europe. There are--or rather there were, at the date of the beginning
of this history--three partners in Meeson's--Meeson himself, the managing
partner; Mr. Addison, and Mr. Roscoe--and people in Birmingham used to
say that there were others interested in the affair, for Meeson's was a
"company" (limited).

However this may be, Meeson and Co. was undoubtedly a commercial marvel