Best

libel action
have been withdrawn

argument.
"We can't all be Stanleys and Burtons," said I;
"besides, we don't get the chance, — at least, I never
had the chance. If I did, I should try to take it."
"But chances are all around you. It is the mark

Hungerton, her father, really was the most
tactless person upon earth, — a fluffy,
feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-
natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly
self. If anything could have

CHAPTER III
"He is a Perfectly Impossible Person"

gave the self-evident answer that I should be a ruined man,
upon which he jumped from his chair, reproved

Chestnuts three days

Qwer

M r. Hungerton, her father, really was the most
tactless person upon earth, — a fluffy,
feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man,

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

the lost world

THE LOST WORLD