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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Lee Shore, by Rose Macaulay This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Lee Shore Author: Rose Macaulay Release Date: August 28, 2005 [eBook #16612] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LEE SHORE*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/ THE LEE SHORE by R. MACAULAY 1912 TO P.R. That division, the division of those who have and those who have not, runs so deep as almost to run to the bottom. CONTENTS CHAPTER I A Hereditary Bequest CHAPTER II The Choice of a Career CHAPTER III The Hopes CHAPTER IV The Complete Shopper CHAPTER V The Splendid Morning CHAPTER VI Hilary, Peggy, and the Boarders CHAPTER VII Diana, Actaeon, and Lord Evelyn CHAPTER VIII Peter Understands CHAPTER IX The Fat in the Fire CHAPTER X The Loss of a Profession CHAPTER XI The Loss of an Idea CHAPTER XII The Loss of a Goblet and Other Things CHAPTER XIII The Loss of the Single State CHAPTER XIV Peter, Rhoda, and Lucy CHAPTER XV The Loss of a Wife CHAPTER XVI A Long Way CHAPTER XVII Mischances in the Rain CHAPTER XVIII The Breaking-Point CHAPTER XIX The New Life CHAPTER XX The Last Loss CHAPTER XXI On the Shore THE LEE SHORE CHAPTER I A HEREDITARY BEQUEST During the first week of Peter Margerison's first term at school, Urquhart suddenly stepped, a radiant figure on the heroic scale, out of the kaleidoscopic maze of bemusing lights and colours that was Peter's vision of his new life. Peter, seeing Urquhart in authority on the football field, asked, "Who is it?" and was told, "Urquhart, of course," with the implication "Who else could it be?" "Oh," Peter said, and blushed. Then he was told, "Standing right in Urquhart's way like that! Urquhart doesn't want to be stared at by all the silly little kids in the lower-fourth." But Urquhart was, as a matter of fact, probably used to it. So that was Urquhart. Peter Margerison hugged secretly his two pieces of knowledge; s
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