Philip Winwood. Robert Neilson Stephens
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Robert Neilson Stephens
Philip Winwood
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664585820
Table of Contents
Wherein 'tis Shown that Boys Are but Boys.
How Philip and I Behaved as Rivals in Love.
We Hear Startling News, Which Brings about a Family "Scene".
Ned Comes Back, with an Interesting Tale of a Fortunate Irishman.
I Meet an Old Friend in the Dark.
Philip's Adventures—Captain Falconer Comes to Town.
Winwood Comes to See His Wife.
Wherein Captain Winwood Declines a Promotion.
The Bad Shilling Turns up Once More in Queen Street.
In Which There Is a Flight by Sea, and a Duel by Moonlight.
Follows the Fortunes of Madge and Ned.
Philip Comes at Last to London.
We Intrude upon a Gentleman at a Coffee-house.
The Last, and Most Eventful, of the History.
NOTES.
PHILIP WINWOOD.
CHAPTER I.
Philip's Arrival in New York.
'Tis not the practice of writers to choose for biography men who have made no more noise in the world than Captain Winwood has; nor the act of gentlemen, in ordinary cases, to publish such private matters as this recital will present. But I consider, on the one hand, that Winwood's history contains as much of interest, and as good an example of manly virtues, as will be found in the life of many a hero more renowned; and, on the other, that his story has been so partially known, and so distorted, it becomes indeed the duty of a gentleman, when that gentleman was his nearest friend, to put forth that story truly, and so give the lie for ever to the detractors of