Mr. Standfast

Name: Mr. Standfast
Author: Buchan, John

Buchan, John

Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- Fiction; Spy stories; War stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction

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Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan

TO THAT MOST GALLANT COMPANY
THE OFFICERS AND MEN
OF THE
SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY BRIGADE
on the Western Front

NOTE

The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made
in this narrative, are recounted in _The Thirty-Nine Steps_ and
_Greenmantle_. 

J.B.

Contents

 PART I
 CHAPTER I The Wicket-Gate
 CHAPTER II “The Village Named Morality”
 CHAPTER III The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
 CHAPTER IV Andrew Amos
 CHAPTER V Various Doings in the West
 CHAPTER VI The Skirts of the Coolin
 CHAPTER VII I Hear of the Wild Birds
 CHAPTER VIII The Adventures of a Bagman
 CHAPTER IX I Take the Wings of a Dove
 CHAPTER X The Advantages of an Air Raid
 CHAPTER XI The Valley of Humiliation

 PART II
 CHAPTER XII I Become a Combatant Once More
 CHAPTER XIII The Adventure of the Picardy Château
 CHAPTER XIV Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
 CHAPTER XV St Anton
 CHAPTER XVI I Lie on a Hard Bed
 CHAPTER XVII The Col of the Swallows
 CHAPTER XVIII The Underground Railway
 CHAPTER XIX The Cage of the Wild Birds
 CHAPTER XX The Storm Breaks in the West
 CHAPTER XXI How an Exile Returned to His Own People
 CHAPTER XXII The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast




PART I



CHAPTER I
The Wicket-Gate


I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a
first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the
course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping
over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for
the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second
I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage
calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a
mighty appetite and a quiet mind.

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Mr. Standfast

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