Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

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Arthur Shearly Cripps. Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

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PROLOGUE. THE THING THAT HATH BEEN. NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD CHAMPION. FUEL OF FIRE 'LA BELLE DAME' THE SCENTED TOWN. THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE. THE LEPER WINDOWS. THE BURNT OFFERING. EIGHTY-EIGHT IN LAVENDER. DIVINATION. JULIAN. THE DOUBLE CABIN. INTELLIGENCE. A CREDIT BALANCE. MAN'S AIRY NOTIONS. PISGAH. A LION IN THE WAY. AS TREES WALKING. THE BLACK DEATH. AN OLD-WORLD SCRUPLE. FOR HIS COUNTRY'S GOOD. LE ROI EST MORT. THE RIDING OF THE RED HORSE. THREE AND AFRICA. OUR LADY OF THE LAKE. EPILOGUE. PROLOGUE

[AFRICA AND HER SISTERS.]

THE THING THAT HATH BEEN

NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD CHAMPION

FUEL OF FIRE

'LA BELLE DAME'

THE SCENTED TOWN (A TRIPPER'S TALE)

THE PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE

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II

III

THE LEPER WINDOWS

THE BURNT OFFERING A SEQUEL TO 'THE LEPER WINDOWS'

EIGHT-EIGHT IN LAVENDER

DIVINATION

JULIAN

I. THE SOP

II. THE SYMBOL OF THE SPURNED

III. THIS NIGHT

DEAR JULIAN,

CELIA

IV. VICISTI GALILAEE!

THE DOUBLE CABIN

INTELLIGENCE

A CREDIT BALANCE

MAN'S AIRY NOTIONS

PISGAH

A LION IN THE WAY*

AS TREES WALKING

THE BLACK DEATH

'J. CARRAWAY.'

AN OLD-WORLD SCRUPLE

LYCANTHROPY

FOR HIS COUNTRY'S GOOD

LE ROI EST MORT

THE RIDING OF THE RED HORSE

I

II

III

THREE AND AFRICA

OUR LADY OF THE LAKE

EPILOGUE

[AFRICA AND HER GODMOTHER.]

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Arthur Shearly Cripps

Published by Good Press, 2019

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There it lies-up so snug and sheltered and screened the old dead survival hidden in the prim little corrugated iron-roofed houses, and the narrow gumtree avenues, and the whitewashed Dutch tabernacle where they sing "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" (would you believe it?) But the time will come, it mayn't come in my day or in yours, but the time will come sure enough, when the Fire will trek dead straight for this old dead-ripe stuff, the Fire with the Wind behind. Then God have mercy on them whose work it was! For their work shall be burnt, aren't we sure of that? But as to they themselves being the sort to be saved so as by fire can we be so very sanguine? Meanwhile … . …

The way he so humbly appealed to me for my opinion on that moot point, did much to conciliate me. He had not carried me with him all the while. He seemed to me a bit out of date, too like an ante-Christian prophet. Yet how my heart went out to him as he ended up so very abruptly with his 'meanwhile.' His voice broke queerly, and his eyes shone. 'Meanwhile they may manage to give a child or two a rough passage. They've got pluck enough for that, the blighters, haven't they?' He turned away from me with a sort of a sob. 'The time'll come sure enough, but it's their time now, and they know it,' he said. 'God pity her!'

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