A millionaire at sixteen : $b or, The cruise of the Guardian-Mother — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
A millionaire at sixteen : $b or, The cruise of the Guardian-Mother
John Stuart Mill · en
CHAPTER XVIII
SOME SIGNS OF TREACHERY 137
CHAPTER XIX
EUCHRED ON THE SHORE 145
CHAPTER XX
IN PURSUIT OF THE MAUD 153
CHAPTER XXI
FELIX MCGAVONTY ON WATCH 161
CHAPTER XXII
MRS. BELGRAVE’S PROTECTOR 170
CHAPTER XXIII
THE SEARCH FOR THE MAUD 178
CHAPTER XXIV
THE GUARDIAN-MOTHER 186
CHAPTER XXV
ON BOARD OF THE PHANTOM 194
CHAPTER XXVI
AMONG THE PINES 202
CHAPTER XXVII
AN AGENT OF THE ENEMY 210
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE LAST OF THE PHANTOM 218
CHAPTER XXIX
LEFT ON A SANDBANK 226
CHAPTER XXX
A HUNGRY MILLIONAIRE 234
CHAPTER XXXI
THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMER 242
CHAPTER XXXII
A FORMAL PRESENTATION 250
CHAPTER XXXIII
ON BOARD THE GUARDIAN-MOTHER 258
CHAPTER XXXIV
A WRECK ON THE BERMUDA REEF 266
CHAPTER XXXV
THE RETURN TO THE GUARDIAN-MOTHER 274
CHAPTER XXXVI
A HAPPY REUNION 282
CHAPTER XXXVII
JOHN SCOBLE’S ANTECEDENTS 291
A MILLIONAIRE AT SIXTEEN
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCING SIR LOUIS BELGRAVE
“Buy a yacht!” exclaimed Squire Moses Scarburn, a gentleman whose
avoirdupois exceeded two hundred pounds, honest weight, as he shook his
fat sides with wholesome laughter. “Why not buy an elephant?”
“I am not in want of an elephant just now,” replied Louis Belgrave, of
whose worldly goods and chattels the stout gentleman was the trustee.
“A yacht is a very expensive plaything, my little joker,” added the
trustee.
“So is an elephant; besides an elephant is clumsy, and a yacht is not.
I can’t say that I have the least desire to see the elephant.”
“I should as soon have thought of your proposing to buy an elephant as
a yacht,” continued Squire Scarburn, a shade more seriously.
“An elephant may be a luxury to some people, like the nabobs of India;
but my fancy does not lead me in that direction.”
“You could put a howdah on his back and ride him all over the State,
to the wonder and admiration of great crowds of small boys,” said the
squire, chuckling as he did habitually, sometimes even when discussing
serious subjects.