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Algernon Blackwood. The Extra Day
The Extra Day
Table of Contents
CHAPTER. I THE MATERIAL. II FANCY—SEED OF WONDER. III DEATH OF A MERE FACT. IV FACT—EDGED WITH FANCY. V THE BIRTH OF WONDER. VI THE GROWTH OF WONDER. VII IMAGINATION WAKES. VIII WHERE WONDER HIDES. IX A PRIEST OF WONDER. X FACT AND WONDER—CLASH. XI JUDY'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE. XII TIM'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE. XIII TIME HESITATES. XIV MARIA STIRS. XV "A DAY WILL COME" XVI TIME HALTS. XVII A DAY HAS COME. XVIII TIME GOES ON AGAIN— XIX—AS USUAL. XX—BUT DIFFERENTLY! CHAPTER I
THE MATERIAL
CHAPTER II
FANCY—SEED OF WONDER
CHAPTER III
DEATH OF A MERE FACT
CHAPTER IV
FACT—EDGED WITH FANCY
CHAPTER V
THE BIRTH OF WONDER
CHAPTER VI
THE GROWTH OF WONDER
CHAPTER VII
IMAGINATION WAKES
CHAPTER VIII
WHERE WONDER HIDES
CHAPTER IX
A PRIEST OF WONDER
CHAPTER X
FACT AND WONDER—CLASH
CHAPTER XI
JUDY'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XII
TIM'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE
CHAPTER XIII
TIME HESITATES
CHAPTER XIV
MARIA STIRS
CHAPTER XV
"A DAY WILL COME"
CHAPTER XVI
TIME HALTS
CHAPTER XVII
A DAY HAS COME. MARIA'S PARTICULAR ADVENTURE
THE EXTRA DAY
BEHIND TIME. I
THE STRANGER WHO IS WONDER
II
HIDE-AND-SEEK
III
THE LEADER
IV
THE COMMON SIGNS
V
COME-BACK STUMPER'S SIGN
VI
WEEDEN'S SIGN
VII
AUNT EMILY FINDS—HERSELF
VIII
SIGNS EVERYWHERE!
IX
REALITY
X
CHAPTER XVIII
TIME GOES ON AGAIN—
CHAPTER XIX
—AS USUAL
CHAPTER XX
—BUT DIFFERENTLY!
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Algernon Blackwood
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Accordingly the children slowly disentangled themselves; they rose and stretched like animals; though all still ignored the figure behind the chair. A ball of stuff unrolled and became Maria. "Thank you, Daddy," she said. "It was just lovely," said Judy. "But it's only the beginning, isn't it?" Tim asked. "It'll go on to-morrow night?" And the figure, having escaped failure by the skin of its teeth, kissed each in turn and said, "Another time—yes, I'll go on with it." Whereupon the children deigned to notice the person behind the chair. "We're coming up to bed now, Jackman," they mentioned casually, and disappeared slowly from the room in a disappointed body, robbed, unsatisfied, but very sleepy. The clock had cheated them of something that properly was endless. Maria alone made no remark, for she was already asleep in Jackman's comfortable arms. Maria was always carried.
"Time's up," Tim reflected when he lay in bed; "time's always up. I do wish we could stop it somehow," and fell asleep somewhat gratified because he had deliberately not wound up his alarum-clock. He had the delicious feeling—a touch of spite in it—that this would bother Time and muddle it.
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