Born in Exile

By Gissing, George

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Title:	Born in Exile
Author:	Gissing, George
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Part the First I The summer day in 1874 which closed the annual session of Whitelaw College was marked by a special ceremony, preceding the wonted distribution of academic rewards. At eleven in the morning (just as a heavy shower fell from the smoke?canopy above the roaring streets) the municipal authorities, educational dignitaries, and prominent burgesses of Kingsmill assembled on an open space before the College to unveil a statue of Sir Job Whitelaw. The honoured baronet had been six months dead. Living, he opposed the desire of his fellow?citizens to exhibit even on canvas his gnarled features and bald crown; but when his modesty ceased to have a voice in the matter, no time was lost in raising a memorial of the great manufacturer, the self?made millionaire, the borough member in three Parliaments, the enlightened and benevolent founder of an institute which had conferred humane distinction on the money?making Midland town. Beneath such a sky, orations were necessarily curtailed; but Sir Job had always been impatient of much talk. An interval of two or three hours dispersed the rain?clouds and bestowed such grace of sunshine as Kingsmill might at this season temperately desire; then, whilst the marble figure was getting dried, with soot?stains which already foretold its negritude of a year hence, again streamed towards the College a varied multitude, official, parental, pupillary. The students had nothing distinctive in their garb, but here and there flitted the cap and gown of Professor or lecturer, signal for doffing of beavers along the line of its progress.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Born in Exile, 1 -- George Gissing, 1 -- Part the First, 2 -- I, 2 -- II, 14 -- III, 26 -- IV, 41 -- V, 45 -- Part the Second, 53 -- I, 53 -- II, 64 -- III, 75 -- IV, 86 -- Part the Third, 96 -- I, 96 -- II, 109 -- III, 119 -- IV, 131 -- V, 139 -- Part the Fourth, 147 -- I, 147 -- II, 151 -- III, 158 -- IV, 170 -- V, 175 -- Part the Fifth, 184 -- I, 184 -- II, 190 -- III, 200 -- IV, 211 -- Part the Sixth, 221 -- I, 221 -- II, 228 -- III, 238 -- IV, 248 -- Part the Seventh, 256 -- I, 256 -- II, 266 -- III, 275