# Proper pride

Author: Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary), 1849?-1920

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72433

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Proper+pride+Croker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

December in Malta is very different from that month in England. There is no snow, no black frost, no fog; a bright, turquoise-blue sky, and deep indigo sea, smooth as glass, and dotted here and there with the white sails of fishing-boats, make a becoming background for this buff-coloured island. The air is soft, yet exhilarating; a perfume of oranges, cheroots, and flowers pervades the atmosphere. Little boys, with superb dark eyes, are thrusting delicious bunches of roses and heliotrope into the hands of passers-by, and demanding “sixpence.” The new piano-organs are grinding away mercilessly at the corner of every street. A trooper, a Peninsular and Oriental, and a vicious-looking ironcl...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/proper-pride-72433/chapters/3/index.md)