This is the story of Margaret Hugonin and of the Eagle. And with your permission, we will for the present defer all consideration of the bird, and devote our unqualified attention to Margaret. I have always esteemed Margaret the obvious, sensible, most appropriate name that can be bestowed upon a girl-child, for it is a name that fits a woman - any woman - as neatly as her proper size in gloves. Yes, the first point I wish to make is that a woman-child, once baptised Margaret, is thereby insured of a suitable name. Be she grave or gay in after-life, wanton or pious or sullen, comely or otherwise, there will be no possible chance of incongruity; whether she develop a taste for winter-gardens or the higher mathematics, whether she take to golf or clinging organdies, the event is provided for. One has only to consider for a moment, and if among a choice of Madge, Marjorie, Meta, Maggie, Margherita, Peggy, and Gretchen, and countless others - if among all these he cannot find a name that suits her to a T - why, then, the case is indeed desperate and he may permissibly fall back upon Madam or - if the cat jump propitiously, and at his own peril - on Darling or Sweetheart.
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Reprint of the 1904 first edition with black and white illustrations by Will Grefe. The first installment of Cabell's Saga of Poictesme. Fine hardback in red cloth with gilt lettering. Published without a jacket. ISBN 0879680881
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Miss Hugonin, Billy Woods, Uncle Fred, Petheridge Jukesbury, Felix Kennaston, Margaret Hugonin, Colonel Hugonin, Cock-eye Flinks, Kathleen Saumarez, Hugh Van Orden, Kathleen Eppes, Teddy Anstruther, Sarah Ellen Haggage New!
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THIS is the story of Margaret Hugonin and of the Eagle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Hugonin, Billy Woods, Uncle Fred, Petheridge Jukesbury, Felix Kennaston, Margaret Hugonin, Colonel Hugonin, Cock-eye Flinks, Kathleen Saumarez, Hugh Van Orden, Kathleen Eppes, Teddy Anstruther, Sarah Ellen Haggage New!
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