The City Draws Grant Toward Personal Reassessment
Grant finds a new apartment overlooking the lake as he grapples with memory and duty. He reflects on his saddle years and the hidden stories of businessmen, while a chance encounter with Miss Bruce interrupts his solitary walk and deepens his preoccupations with Zen and Transley’s wife.
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Grant
Zen
Y.D
Transley
Dennison Grant
A Private Stenographer and a Frontbound Choice
Grant confronts war duty and a complex romance as he guides his firm through a stock crisis. Phyllis Bruce reveals her devotion while Hubert and Grace enlist or prepare for service, forcing a painful choice about love and duty in a changing world.
Return of Captain Grant and Sergeant Linder
Four years of war age men, yet Grant and Linder return to a world uncertain. The veteran captain and his loyal sergeant, scarred but hopeful, seek meals first and plans for a quiet future. They debate wealth, work, and old loves as they approach Bruce cottage, hinting at Phyllis and a past worth revisiting.
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Mr. Grant
Miss Bruce
Grant
Grace
Hubert
Phyllis
Murdoch
Phyllis Bruce
Flubert
England
Linder
Old City
France
St. Linder
Jones
Transley
No Man’s Land
Bruce
the Bruce
Bolivar the Liberator of South America
A critical portrait traces Simon Bolivar from his early courtly taunts at Spain to his ruthless campaigns across Venezuela Colombia and Peru. It notes British officers and German mercenaries aiding his armies and concludes with Bolivar realizing his legacy as a myth amid ongoing regional strife.
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Spain
Ferdinand
Prince of the
Asturias
Don Ferdinand
Bolivar
South America
Napoleon
Brother Joseph
Venezuela
George
London
Uberty
Miraunda
Andes
New Republic
Simon Bolivar
General Miranda
Miranda
Colom A
Magdalena Valley
Colombia
America
Iberator
la Guarura
Orinoco River
Wanos
Laneros
Boves
Morales
Carabobo
Europe
Spanish America
Paramo
Rook
Boyaca
British Legion
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Satisfactory Proposal Quots Wordplay on Tax Debt
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows a suitor declaring he has exhausted every legal exemption to marry the daughter, yet still cannot escape paying income tax. The exchange highlights financial pressures and parental intervention in a prospective match.
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Epdke
Boston Transcript
Wheat Yield Growth Over Three Centuries Reported
The English have increased wheat yield over the last three hundred years at roughly eight bushels per acre every one hundred years.
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Robert Stead
No Man's Land
Bobbs-Merrill Company