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Arnold Bennett. CLAYHANGER
CLAYHANGER
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Table of Contents
Book i. His Vocation
Chapter One. The Last of a Schoolboy
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Two. The Flame
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Three. Entry into the World
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Four. The Child-man
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Five. Mr. Shushions’s Tear Explained
Two
Three
Chapter Six. In the House
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Seven. Auntie Hamps
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Chapter Eight. In the Shop
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Nine. The Town
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Ten. Free and Easy
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Chapter Eleven. Son and Father
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Twelve. Machinery
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Chapter Thirteen. One Result of Courage
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Fourteen. The Architect
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Fifteen. A Decision
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Sixteen. The Letter
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Chapter Seventeen. End of a Struggle
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Book ii. His Love
Chapter One. The Visit
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Two. Father and Son After Seven Years
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Three. The New House
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Four. The Two Gardens
Two
Three
Chapter Five. Clothes
Two
Three
Chapter Six. Janet Loses Her Bet
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Seven. Lane End House
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Eight. The Family Supper
Two
Three
Chapter Nine. In the Porch
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Ten. The Centenary
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Eleven. The Bottom of the Square
Two
Three
Chapter Twelve. The Top of the Square
Two
Three
Chapter Thirteen. The Oldest Sunday-school Teacher
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Fourteen. Money
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Fifteen. The Insult
Two
Three
Chapter Sixteen. The Sequel
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Seventeen. Challenge and Response
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Eighteen. Curiosity
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Nineteen. A Catastrophe
Two
Three
Chapter Twenty. The Man
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Twenty One. The Marriage
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Book iii. His Freedom
Chapter One. After a Funeral
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Two. The Conclave
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Three. The Name
Two
Three
Chapter Four. The Victim of Sympathy
Two
Three
Chapter Five. The Slave’s Fear
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Six. Keys and Cheques
Two
Three
Chapter Seven. Laid Aside
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Eight. A Change of Mind
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Nine. The Ox
Two
Chapter Ten. Mrs. Hamps as a Young Man
Two
Chapter Eleven. An Hour
Two
Chapter Twelve. Revenge
Two
Three
Chapter Thirteen. The Journey Upstairs
Two
Three
Chapter Fourteen. The Watch
Two
Three
Chapter Fifteen. The Banquet
Two
Three
Four
Chapter Sixteen. After the Banquet
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Seventeen. The Chain Broken
Two
Three
Four
Five
Book iv. His Start In Life
Chapter One. The Birthday Visit
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Chapter Two. Janet’s Nephew
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Three. Adventure
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Chapter Four. In Preston Street
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Five. The Bully
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Six. The Rendezvous
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Seven. The Wall
Two
Three
Chapter Eight. The Friendship
Two
Three
Chapter Nine. The Arrivals
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Ten. George and the Vicar
Chapter Eleven. Beginning of the Night
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Chapter Twelve. End of the Night
Two
Three
Four
Five
Chapter Thirteen. Her Heart
Two
Three
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Arnold Bennett
Book ii. His Love.
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The boys descended without a word through the brick-strewn pastures, where a horse or two cropped the short grass. At the railway bridge, which carried a branch mineral line over the path, they exchanged a brief volley of words with the working-lads who always played pitch-and-toss there in the dinner-hour; and the Sunday added to the collection of shawds and stones lodged on the under ledges of the low iron girders. A strange boy, he had sworn to put ten thousand stones on those ledges before he died, or perish in the attempt. Hence Edwin sometimes called him “Old Perish-inthe-attempt.” A little farther on the open gates of a manufactory disclosed six men playing the noble game of rinkers on a smooth patch of ground near the weighing machine. These six men were Messieurs Ford, Carter, and Udall, the three partners owning the works, and three of their employees. They were celebrated marble-players, and the boys stayed to watch them as, bending with one knee almost touching the earth, they shot the rinkers from their stubby thumbs with a canon-like force and precision that no boy could ever hope to equal. “By gum!” mumbled Edwin involuntarily, when an impossible shot was accomplished; and the bearded shooter, pleased by this tribute from youth, twisted his white apron into a still narrower ring round his waist. Yet Edwin was not thinking about the game. He was thinking about a battle that lay before him, and how he would be weakened in the fight by the fact that in the last school examination, Charlie Orgreave, younger than himself by a year, had ousted him from the second place in the school. The report in his pocket said: “Position in class next term: third;” whereas he had been second since the beginning of the year. There would of course be no “next term” for him, but the report remained. A youth who has come to grips with that powerful enemy, his father, cannot afford to be handicapped by even such a trifle as a report entirely irrelevant to the struggle.
Suddenly Charlie Orgreave gave a curt nod, and departed, in nonchalant good-humour, doubtless considering that to accompany his chum any farther would be to be guilty of girlish sentimentality. And Edwin nodded with equal curtness and made off slowly into the maze of Bursley. The thought in his heart was: “I’m on my own, now. I’ve got to face it now, by myself.” And he felt that not merely his father, but the leagued universe, was against him.
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