The Wages of Virtue
THE
WAGES OF VIRTUE
BY PERCIVAL CHRISTOPHER WREN
CHEAPER EDITION
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBERMARLE STREET
[Front matter]
First Edition | November, 1916 |
Reprinted | December, 1916 |
Reprinted | May, 1917 |
Reprinted | September, 1917 |
Reprinted (2/-) | January, 1920 |
Reprinted (3/6) | April, 1925 |
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER | PAGE | |
Prologue | xi | |
I. | Soap and Sit Montague Merline | 1 |
II. | A Barrack-Room of the Legion | 37 |
III. | Carmelita et Cie | 62 |
IV. | The Canteen of the Legion | 99 |
V. | The Trivial Round | 120 |
VI. | Le Cafard and Other Things | 156 |
VII. | The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing | 178 |
VIII. | The Temptation of Sir Montague Merline | 211 |
IX. | The Café and the Canteen | 231 |
X. | The Wages of Sin | 255 |
XI. | Greater Love… | 270 |
Epilogue | 299 |
“Vivandière du régiment,
C’est Catin qu’on me nomme;
Je vends, je donne, je bois gaiment,
Mon vin et mon rogomme;
J’ai le pied leste et l’œil mutin,
Tintin, tintin, tintin, r’lin tintin,
Soldats, voilà Catin!
“Je fus chère à tous nos héros;
Hélas! combien j’en pleure,
Ainsi soldats et généraux
Me comblaient à tout heure
D’amour, de gloire et de butin,
Soldats, voilà Catin!”
Béranger.
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