Half a Hero

A Novel

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Half a Hero is a novel by Anthony Hope. The contents list chapters called A Popular Demonstration, Hospitality Ex Officio, Weeding Out the Weak-Kneed, A Talk at a Dance and A Candidate for Office. Miss Scaife conceded one point of view, but maintained that there was another, and from that other she ranked Mr. Medland above a thousand Sir Roberts.

Puttock declares it a gambler's last throw, and a man in the bow-window calls, Look! There he is! Near three thousand were there, almost all men; most had sticks, and here and there the sun caught the gleam of a knife or the glint from a revolver-barrel. A rude kind of rampart of the tables and chairs from the gaol formed a slight makeshift barricade. The Governor halted and said that it really looks rather serious.

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Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope, born Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), was an English barrister who turned to fiction and found lasting fame with The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau. His invented kingdom of Ruritania gave a whole subgenre of romance its name.