This carefully crafted ebook: «The Old Adam : A Story of Adventure (Unabridged)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This ebook is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1913. A novel in true and humourous knowledge of the heart-relations which exist between a man and the woman he has married. A very kindly and graphic story to which the new interest of an American perspective is added. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English journalist, novelist, and writer. After working as a rent collector and solicitor's clerk, Bennett won a writing contest which convinced him to become a journalist. He later turned to the writing of novels, including his most famous Clayhanger and Anna of the five towns.
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Arnold Bennett. The Old Adam : A Story of Adventure (Unabridged)
The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure
Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I. DOG-BITE
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CHAPTER II. THE BANK-NOTE
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CHAPTER III. WILKINS'S
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CHAPTER IV. ENTRY INTO THE THEATRICAL WORLD
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CHAPTER V. MR. SACHS TALKS
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CHAPTER VI. LORD WOLDO AND LADY WOLDO
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VIII
PART II
CHAPTER VII. CORNER-STONE
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CHAPTER VIII. DEALING WITH ELSIE
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CHAPTER IX. THE FIRST NIGHT
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VIII
CHAPTER X. ISABEL
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Arnold Bennett
(Unabridged)
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The bed-clothes were drawn down and the leg gradually revealed. And the sight of the little soft leg, so fragile and defenceless, really did touch Edward Henry. It made him feel more like an authentic father than he had felt for a long time. And the sight of the red wound hurt him. Still, it was a beautifully clean wound, and it was not a large wound.
"It's a clean wound," he observed judiciously. In spite of himself, he could not keep a certain flippant harsh quality out of his tone.
