My Brilliant CareerFront matterReading editionChapter navigation41 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE I Remember, I RememberCHAPTER TWO An Introduction to Possum GullyCHAPTER THREE A Lifeless LifeCHAPTER FOUR A Career Which Soon Careered To An EndCHAPTER FIVE Disjointed Sketches And GrumblesCHAPTER SIX RevoltCHAPTER SEVEN Was E’er a Rose Without Its Thorn?CHAPTER EIGHT Possum Gully Left Behind. Hurrah! Hurrah!CHAPTER NINE Aunt Helen’s RecipeCHAPTER TEN Everard GreyCHAPTER ELEVEN Yah!CHAPTER TWELVE One Grand PassionCHAPTER THIRTEEN HeCHAPTER FOURTEEN Principally LettersCHAPTER FIFTEEN When the Heart is YoungCHAPTER SIXTEEN When Fortune SmilesCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Idylls of YouthCHAPTER EIGHTEEN As Short as I Wish had been the Majority of Sermons to which I have been Forced to give EarCHAPTER NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896CHAPTER TWENTY Same Yarn—continuedCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour AgainCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet SeventeenCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring ForthCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Boast Not Thyself of TomorrowCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My JourneyCHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT To LifeCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE To Life—continuedCHAPTER THIRTY Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to be WiseCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Mr M’Swat and I Have a Bust-upCHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Ta-ta to Barney’s GapCHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Back at Possum GullyCHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR But Absent Friends are Soon ForgotCHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE The 3rd of December 1898CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and HotCHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by littleCHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT A Tale that is told and a Day that is doneBeginning of this editionNext chapter →PREFACEAll chapters and sections (41)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONChapters1234567891011121314151617181920Other sectionsCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE My Unladylike Behaviour AgainCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Sweet SeventeenCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Ah, For One Hour of Burning Love, ’Tis Worth an Age of Cold Respect!CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Thou Knowest Not What a Day May Bring ForthCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Because?CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Boast Not Thyself of TomorrowCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN My JourneyCHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT To LifeCHAPTER TWENTY-NINE To Life—continuedCHAPTER THIRTY Where Ignorance is Bliss, ’Tis Folly to be WiseCHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Mr M’Swat and I Have a Bust-upCHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Ta-ta to Barney’s GapCHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Back at Possum GullyCHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR But Absent Friends are Soon ForgotCHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE The 3rd of December 1898CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Once Upon a Time, When the Days Were Long and HotCHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN He that despiseth little things, shall fall little by littleCHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT A Tale that is told and a Day that is done1901PREFACE →