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THE PUPIL LOVER §1 When Kipps came to reflect upon his afternoon's work he had his first inkling of certain comprehensive incompatibilities lying about the course of true love in his particular …
DISCORDS §1 One day Kipps set out upon his newly-mastered bicycle to New Romney to break the news of his engagement to his Uncle and Aunt—this time positively. He was now a finished cyclist, but as y…
LONDON §1 London was Kipps' third world. There were no doubt other worlds, but Kipps knew only these three; firstly, New Romney and the Emporium, constituting his primary world, his world of ori…
KIPPS ENTERS SOCIETY §1 Submission to Inexorable Fate took Kipps to the Anagram Tea. At any rate he would meet Helen there in the presence of other people and be able to carry off the worst of the di…
THE LABYRINTHODON §1 You imagine them fleeing through our complex and difficult social system, as it were, for life, first on foot and severally to the Folkestone Central Station; then in a first-cla…
THE HOUSING PROBLEM §1 Honeymoons and all things come to an end, and you see at last Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kipps descending upon the Hythe platform—coming to Hythe to find that nice little house—to re…
THE CALLERS §1 The Kippses sat at their midday dinner-table and amidst the vestiges of rhubarb pie, and discussed two postcards the one o'clock post had brought. It was a rare bright moment of s…
TERMINATIONS §1 Next morning came a remarkable telegram from Folkestone. "Please come at once, urgent, Walshingham," said the telegram, and Kipps, after an agitated but still ample breakfas…
