27. Cope Escapes a Snare

28. Cope Absent From a Wedding

29. Cope Again in the Country

30. Cope as a Hero

31. Cope Gets New Light on His Chum

32. Cope Takes His Degree

33. Cope in a Final View_

AFTERWORD




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_COPE AT A COLLEGE TEA_


What is a man's best age? Peter Ibbetson, entering dreamland with complete
freedom to choose, chose twenty-eight, and kept there. But twenty-eight,
for our present purpose, has a drawback: a man of that age, if endowed with
ordinary gifts and responsive to ordinary opportunities, is undeniably--a
man; whereas what we require here is something just a little short of that.
Wanted, in fact, a young male who shall seem fully adult to those who are