novelnovelMr. Meeson's WillMr. Meeson's WillnovelNovelhttps://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/haggard/editions/images/000/000/96/original/mrMeesonsLondonSpencerBlackettCover.jpeg?1480716102Mr. Meeson's Will is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. MMW was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of The I...<em>Mr. Meeson's Will</em> is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. <em>MMW</em> was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of<em>The Illu</em>...Mr. Meeson's Will is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. MMW was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of The Illustrated London News, issued June 1888 and accompanied Amedée Forrestier and G. Montbard's illustrations. Spencer Blackett, London, published an edition in October 1888 featuring sixteen full-page illustrations by Forestier and Montbard. This edition also includes 26 chapter-heading embellishments, 24 decorative first letters, and 18 end-of-chapter decorations. In 1888 Pollard & Moss, New York, published an edition with twenty-four full page illustrations by Philip G. Cusachs. Further Reading Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 76. Print. Whatmore, D. E. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. 14-16. Print.
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Mr. Meeson's Will
Mr. Meeson's Will is a legal drama concerning an authoress stranded on a desert island with a wealthy publisher who tattoos his will onto her back. MMW was first published in its entirely in the Summer Number of The Illustrated London News, issued June 1888 and accompanied Amedée Forrestier and G. Montbard's illustrations. Spencer Blackett, London, published an edition in October 1888 featuring sixteen full-page illustrations by Forestier and Montbard. This edition also includes 26 chapter-heading embellishments, 24 decorative first letters, and 18 end-of-chapter decorations. In 1888 Pollard & Moss, New York, published an edition with twenty-four full page illustrations by Philip G. Cusachs.
Further Reading
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993. 76. Print.
Whatmore, D. E. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. 14-16. Print.
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Augusta set her teeth and endured in silence
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H. Rider Haggard's New Novel
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And so they went, glad to have got over the first step so pleasantly
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And thus it was
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The street where Augusta lived.
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Augusta turned her back to the judge
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St. Michael.
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'At Lady Holmhurst's.' Come to-morrow morning
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Augusta's Little Sister.
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And Augusta, looking at his face, could not but believe him
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St. George's, Hanover Square.
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Eustace Consults a Lawyer.
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Augusta's Decision.
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The R.M.S. 'Kangaroo'
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The R.M.S. 'Kangaroo'
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Augusta Flies.
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I don't think that I can live through the night
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Meeson V. Addison and Another.
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Preface
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Rescued.
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Southampton Quay.
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How Eustace Was Disinherited.
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How Eustace Was Disinherited.
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The 'Kangaroo' at sea.
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Eustace buys a paper.
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What could it mean?
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How Augusta was Filed.
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Grant As Prayed.
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Meeson's Once Again.
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Grant As Prayed.
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Southampton Quay.
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A Mighty vessel steamed majestically out of the mouth of the Thames.
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The Catastrophe.
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Eustace Consults a Lawyer.
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Short on Legal Etiquette.
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'She's going!— by George, she's going!' said the seaman Johnnie.
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Down went the books with a crash and a bang, and, carried away by their weight, down went Mr. Addison.
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And to think that all this comes out of the brains of chaps like you.
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Preface
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Nothing but the white wave-horses, across which the black cormorants steered their swift, unerring flight.
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Mr. Tombey Goes Forward.
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Mr. Tombey Goes Forward.
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'O Auntie! Auntie!' Dick sang out in high glee, 'here's a big ship coming sailing along.'
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Right into thi beautiful fjord they sailed.
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Kerguelen Land
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Augusta to the Rescue
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The last of Mr. Meeson
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Rescued
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At Hanover Square
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Augusta Flies
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Contents
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Contents
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Eustace belonged to the class that rises, and not to that which shrinks
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List of Illustrations.
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'Just as the men came up she got away somehow, and stood looking very foolish.'
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Pompadour Hall
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Augusta gently lifted the sheet, revealing the sweet face of little Jeannie in her coffin.
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Mr. Meeson tearing his will.
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Just as the men came up she got away somehow, and stood looking very foolish.
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Pompadour Hall
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Augusta turned her back to the Judge, in order that he might examine what was written on it
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Augusta and Her Publisher
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'No! no!' cried Augusta, her heart moved. 'There is plenty of room in the boat'
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For answer, she stretched out her hand and gave him one sweet look.
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Just then, the sailor Bill, who had been up on the flag-staff on the rock
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Suddenly, growing faint or for some other cause, the figure loosed its hold and rolled into the scuppers
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Right into this beautiful fjord they sailed
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Mr. Meeson's Will
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She was slowly going through this process, and wondering how long it would be before her neck ceased to smart
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Mr. Meeson tearing his will.
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I will publish nothing for five years... because I have been cheated, Mr. Meeson
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'She's going!—by George, she's going' said the seaman Johnnie
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'Augusta gently lifted the sheet, revealing the sweet face of little Jeannie in her coffin.'
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And to think that all this comes out of the brains of chaps like you.
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Down went the books with a crash and a bang, and, carried away by their weight, down went Mr. Addison.
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