Major Vigoureux

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Major Vigoureux is a book by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The contents list names chapters among others called In the Garrison Garden, The Gun in the Great Fog and How Vashti Came to the Islands. The text describes the Commandant as a sincere Christian, ever willing to believe the best of his kind and incapable of harbouring malice.

Mr. Rogers, Lieutenant R. N., and Inspecting Commander of the Coast-guard, is shown at the head of the slope just outside the fortifications, conning the sea through a telescope. Miss Gabriel is shown persisting: 'and indeed so incredibly absurd that we have brought Mr. Pope to hear your account of them'. The text says the Lord Proprietor had been autocratic in council, impatient of opinions that crossed his own. The text says that after five years the Councillors enjoyed, without confessing it, a sense of liberty regained.

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Arthur Quiller-Couch

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish novelist, critic, and Cambridge professor who wrote under the initial Q. He edited the influential Oxford Book of English Verse and shaped generations of readers through his lectures on writing and reading.