The Gay Cockade. Temple Bailey

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664643094

Table of Contents

       THE GAY COCKADE

       THE HIDDEN LAND

       WHITE BIRCHES

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       THE EMPEROR'S GHOST

       I

       II

       THE RED CANDLE

       RETURNED GOODS

       BURNED TOAST

       I

       II

       PETRONELLA

       THE CANOPY BED

       SANDWICH JANE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       LADY CRUSOE

       A REBELLIOUS GRANDMOTHER

       WAIT—FOR PRINCE CHARMING

       BEGGARS ON HORSEBACK

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       THE NOVELS OF TEMPLE BAILEY

       PEACOCK FEATHERS

       THE DIM LANTERN

       THE GAY COCKADE

       THE TRUMPETER SWAN

       THE TIN SOLDIER

       MISTRESS ANNE

       CONTRARY MARY

       GLORY OF YOUTH

THE GAY COCKADE

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      From the moment that Jimmie Harding came into the office, he created an atmosphere. We were a tired lot. Most of us had been in the government service for years, and had been ground fine in the mills of departmental monotony.

      But Jimmie was young, and he wore his youth like a gay cockade. He flaunted it in our faces, and because we were so tired of our dull and desiccated selves, we borrowed of him, remorselessly, color and brightness until, gradually, in the light of his reflected glory, we seemed a little younger, a little less tired, a little less petrified.

      In his gay and gallant youth there was, however, a quality which partook of earlier times. He should, we felt, have worn a feather in his cap—and