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Gilbert Parker. The Judgment House
The Judgment House
Table of Contents
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. THE JASMINE FLOWER
CHAPTER II. THE UNDERGROUND WORLD
CHAPTER III. A DAUGHTER OF TYRE
CHAPTER IV. THE PARTNERS MEET
CHAPTER V. A WOMAN TELLS HER STORY
CHAPTER VI. WITHIN THE POWER-HOUSE
BOOK II
CHAPTER VII. THREE YEARS LATER
CHAPTER VIII "HE SHALL NOT TREAT ME SO"
CHAPTER IX. THE APPIAN WAY
CHAPTER X. AN ARROW FINDS A BREAST
CHAPTER XI. IN WALES, WHERE JIGGER PLAYS HIS PART
CHAPTER XII. THE KEY IN THE LOCK
CHAPTER XIII "I WILL NOT SING"
CHAPTER XIV. THE BAAS
BOOK III
CHAPTER XV. THE WORLD WELL LOST
CHAPTER XVI. THE COMING OF THE BAAS
CHAPTER XVII. IS THERE NO HELP FOR THESE THINGS?
CHAPTER XVIII. LANDRASSY'S LAST STROKE
CHAPTER XIX. TO-MORROW ... PREPARE!
CHAPTER XX. THE FURNACE DOOR
CHAPTER XXI. THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE
CHAPTER XXII. IN WHICH FELLOWES GOES A JOURNEY
CHAPTER XXIII "MORE WAS LOST AT MOHACKSFIELD"
CHAPTER XXIV. ONE WHO CAME SEARCHING
CHAPTER XXV. WHEREIN THE LOST IS FOUND
CHAPTER XXVI. JASMINE'S LETTER
CHAPTER XXVII. KROOL
CHAPTER XXVIII "THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM"
BOOK IV
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MENACE OF THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXX "AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET!"
CHAPTER XXXI. THE GREY HORSE AND ITS RIDER
CHAPTER XXXII. THE WORLD'S FOUNDLING
CHAPTER XXXIII "ALAMACHTIG!"
CHAPTER XXXIV "THE ALPINE FELLOW"
CHAPTER XXXV. AT BRINKWORT'S FARM
CHAPTER XXXVI. SPRINGS OF HEALING
CHAPTER XXXVII. UNDER THE GUN
CHAPTER XXXVIII "PHEIDIPPIDES"
CHAPTER XXXIX "THE ROAD IS CLEAR"
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Gilbert Parker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"Well, that's primary instinct. Music is for the most savage natures. The boor that couldn't appreciate the Taj Mahal, or the sculpture of Michael Angelo, might be swept off his feet by the music of a master, though he couldn't understand its story. Besides, I've carried a banjo and a cornet to the ends of the earth with me. I saved my life with the cornet once. A lion got inside my zareba in Rhodesia. I hadn't my gun within reach, but I'd been playing the cornet, and just as he was crouching I blew a blast from it—one of those jarring discords of Wagner in the "Gotterdammerung"—and he turned tail and got away into the bush with a howl. Hearing gets to be the most acute of all the senses with the pioneer. If you've ever been really dying of thirst, and have reached water again, its sounds become wonderful to you ever after that—the trickle of a creek, the wash of a wave on the shore, the drip on a tin roof, the drop over a fall, the swish of a rainstorm. It's the same with birds and trees. And trees all make different sounds—that's the shape of the leaves. It's all music, too."
Her breath came quickly with pleasure at the imagination and observation of his words. "So it wasn't strange that you should be ravished by Al'mah's singing last night was it?" She looked at him keenly. "Isn't it curious that such a marvellous gift should be given to a woman who in other respects—" she paused.
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