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Автор: J. M. Barrie
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       J. M. Barrie

      Sentimental Tommy

      The Story of His Boyhood

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664615206

       THE STORY OF HIS BOYHOOD

       CHAPTER I — TOMMY CONTRIVES TO KEEP ONE OUT

       CHAPTER II — BUT THE OTHER GETS IN

       CHAPTER III — SHOWING HOW TOMMY WAS SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED INTO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN

       CHAPTER IV — THE END OF AN IDYLL

       CHAPTER V — THE GIRL WITH TWO MOTHERS

       CHAPTER VI — THE ENCHANTED STREET

       CHAPTER VII — COMIC OVERTURE TO A TRAGEDY

       CHAPTER VIII — THE BOY WITH TWO MOTHERS

       CHAPTER IX — AULD LANG SYNE

       CHAPTER X — THE FAVORITE OF THE LADIES

       CHAPTER XI — AARON LATTA

       CHAPTER XII — A CHILD'S TRAGEDY

       CHAPTER XIII — SHOWS HOW TOMMY TOOK CARE OF ELSPETH

       CHAPTER XIV — THE HANKY SCHOOL

       CHAPTER XV — THE MAN WHO NEVER CAME

       CHAPTER XVI — THE PAINTED LADY

       CHAPTER XVII — IN WHICH TOMMY SOLVES THE WOMAN PROBLEM

       CHAPTER XVIII — THE MUCKLEY

       CHAPTER XIX — CORP IS BROUGHT TO HEEL—GRIZEL DEFIANT

       CHAPTER XX — THE SHADOW OF SIR WALTER

       CHAPTER XXI — THE LAST JACOBITE RISING

       CHAPTER XXII — THE SIEGE OF THRUMS

       CHAPTER XXIII — GRIZEL PAYS THREE VISITS

       CHAPTER XXIV — A ROMANCE OF TWO OLD MAIDS AND A STOUT BACHELOR

       CHAPTER XXV — A PENNY PASS-BOOK

       CHAPTER XXVI — TOMMY REPENTS, AND IS NONE THE WORSE FOR IT

       CHAPTER XXVII — THE LONGER CATECHISM

       CHAPTER XXVIII — BUT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MISS KITTY

       CHAPTER XXIX — TOMMY THE SCHOLAR

       CHAPTER XXX — END OF THE JACOBITE RISING

       CHAPTER XXXI — A LETTER TO GOD

       CHAPTER XXXII — AN ELOPEMENT

       CHAPTER XXXIII — THERE IS SOME ONE TO LOVE GRIZEL AT LAST

       CHAPTER XXXIV — WHO TOLD TOMMY TO SPEAK

       CHAPTER XXXV — THE BRANDING OF TOMMY

       CHAPTER XXXVI — OF FOUR MINISTERS WHO AFTERWARDS BOASTED THAT THEY HAD KNOWN TOMMY

       SANDYS

       CHAPTER XXXVII — THE END OF A BOYHOOD

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      The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open door to sniff a potful. On his way up and down the stair he often paused to sniff, but he never asked for anything; his mother had warned him against it, and he carried out her injunction with almost unnecessary spirit, declining offers before they were made, as when passing a room, whence came the smell of fried fish, he might call in, "I don't not want none of your fish," or "My