# A Servant of the Public

Author: Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933; Percival, Harold [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48642

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Servant+of+the+Public+Hope&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The social birth of a family, united by a chain of parallel events with the commercial development of a business, is a spectacle strange to no country but most common among the nation of shopkeepers; it presents, however, interesting points and is likely to produce a group of persons rather diverse in character. Some of the family breathe the new air readily enough; with some the straw of the omnibus (there was straw in omnibuses during the formative period) follows on silken skirts into the landau. It takes, they say, three generations to make a gentleman; the schools ticket them--National or Board, Commercial or Grammar, Eton or Harrow. Three generations, not perhaps of human flesh, but...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-servant-of-the-public-48642/chapters/4/index.md)