Fiction · 1921
The Man Who Did the Right Thing
A Romance
The Man Who Did the Right Thing, first published in 1921, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Introductory
- Chapter I — The Baineses
- Chapter II — John and Lucy
- Chapter III — Sibyl at Silchester
- Chapter IV — Lucy Hesitates
- Chapter V — Roger’s Dismissal
- Chapter VI — The Voyage Out
- Chapter VII — Unguja—And Up-Country
- Chapter VIII — Letters to and Fro
- Chapter IX — Mission Life
- Chapter X — Roger Arrives
- Chapter XI — The Happy Valley
- Chapter XII — The Attack on the Station
- Chapter XIII — The Return to Unguja
- Chapter XIV — Lucy’s Second Marriage
- Chapter XV — In England
- Chapter XVI — Sibyl as Siren
- Chapter XVII — Back to the Happy Valley
- Chapter XVIII — Five Years Later
- Chapter XIX — Trouble with Stolzenberg
- Chapter XX — The Boer War
- Chapter XXI — The Morals of the Happy Valley
- Chapter XXII — Eight Years Have Passed by
- Chapter XXIII — The End of Sibyl
- Chapter XXIV — All Ends in the Happy Valley
New editions
Never lose your place.
This book is free to read in full, and stays that way. Leave an address: one click confirms it and opens a free account, so your progress and bookmarks sync across every device. You'll also hear when the next restored edition enters the archive. Terminate at any time.
About this edition
The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.
Source mind
About the author
Adjacent records
