# A call

Author: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71529

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+call+Ford&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IT was once said of Mr. Robert Grimshaw: “That chap is like a seal”--and the simile was a singularly just one. He was like a seal who is thrusting his head and shoulders out of the water, and, with large, dark eyes and sensitive nostrils, is on the watch. All that could be known of him seemed to be known; all that could be known of the rest of the world he moved in he seemed to know. He carried about with him usually, in a crook of his arm, a polished, light brown dachshund that had very large feet, and eyes as large, as brown, and as luminous, as those of his master. Upon the occasion of Pauline Lucas’s marriage to Dudley Leicester the dog was not upon his arm, but he carried it into the...

## Chapters

- [PART IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-call-71529/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-call-71529/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-call-71529/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-call-71529/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-call-71529/chapters/2/index.md)