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John Buchan. The Blanket of the Dark
The Blanket of the Dark
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
THE PAINTED FLOOR
CHAPTER II
IN WHICH PETER IS INTRODUCED TO FORTUNE
CHAPTER III
IN WHICH PETER LURKS IN THE SHADOW
CHAPTER IV
IN WHICH PETER GOES DEEPER INTO THE GREENWOOD
CHAPTER V
THE PARLIAMENT OF BEGGARS
CHAPTER VI
IN WHICH PETER EMERGES INTO THE LIGHT
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II
III
IV
CHAPTER VII
HOW A WOULD-BE KING BECAME A FUGITIVE
CHAPTER VIII
HOW PETER SAW DEATH IN THE SWAN INN
CHAPTER IX
THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS
CHAPTER X
OF THE CONCLAVE AT LITTLE GREECE
CHAPTER XI
HOW PETER CAME AGAIN TO AVELARD
CHAPTER XII
OF THE VISION IN THE SNOW
CHAPTER XIII
THE UNLOOSING OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER XIV
HOW PETER STROVE WITH POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES
CHAPTER XV
HOW THE SWAN OF BOHUN WENT DOWN
CHAPTER XVI
HOW PETER RETURNED TO THE GREENWOOD
EPILOGUE
THE END
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John Buchan
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Something was moving on the Painted Floor, something which so blended with the moonlight that its presence could be known only when it obscured the pattern.... From where he sat, Peter looked beyond the little amphitheatre to a gap in the encircling coppice, a gap through which could be seen the descending glade and a segment of far hills. The moonlight on the Floor, being framed in trees, was an intenser glow than the paler landscape beyond. Suddenly against this pallor a figure was silhouetted—the figure of a girl.
Peter tried to pray. He tried to say a prayer to the Mother of God which was his favourite invocation in emergencies. It began, Imperatrix supernorum, Superatrix infernorum, but he did not get as far as superatrix. For he found that he had not the need to pray. His fear had been only momentary. His heart was beating fast, but not with terror. The sight before him was less an invocation to prayer than an answer to it. Into his own secret sanctuary had come the appropriate goddess.
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