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Mr. Petre wondering who or what he may have been Frontispiece

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“... As though he were a Unicorn” 11

“... And the two ex-Lord-Chancellors agreed” 27

Mrs. Cyril leaping to the telephone 37

His Grace the Proprietor of the “Messenger” conferring the Order of the Boot on Mr. Batterby, of Golder’s Green in the County of Middlesex 52

Sir Jeremiah Walton, God’s servant 57

Minatory but Patient Admonishment of the Ignoble Algernon by Breeches of Bolter’s Club, St. James’ (S.W.1) 62

“... Spectacles adorning a face like the full moon” 69

“His forehead witnessed to a lifetime of profound thought, his white beard to careful grooming” 72

The Partners 89

“Exactly. I quite understand” 99

Dada Beeston (Dorothea Madua, second and younger daughter of Henry, 10th Baron Beeston, of Beeston Abbey, Beeston, Rutlandshire; and of Desirée Waldschwein, his wife) 131

“One had chosen Public Service, the other—Affairs” 138

“He used to think in three figures; he was now thinking in five” 144

Young Mr. Cassleton, growing acquainted with the World of Affairs 150

The Public discovering no small appetite for the Debentures at 8% 173

“He had decided” 189

The Great Specialist wrote:—“Special circumstances: A Bastard” 199

The second and more jovial Great Specialist, Sir William Bland 208

Joyous recognition of Buffy Thomas 218

John Kosciusko protesting against the interference of Peers in Judicial Procedure 267

Ermyntrude, First (and Last) Viscountess Boole: Lord Chancellor of England 272

MR. PETRE

MR. PETRE