Overlooked

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Baring Maurice. Overlooked

PART I. THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

PART II

FROM THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY

By JAMES RUDD

THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY – Part II

THE PAPERS OF ANTHONY KAY – PART II

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When my old friend and trusted adviser, Doctor Kennaway, told me that I must go to Haréville and stay there a month or, still better, two months, I asked him what I could possibly do there. The only possible pastime at a watering-place is to watch. A blind man is debarred from that pastime.

He said to me: "Why don't you write a novel?"

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Rudd then left me. He was enchanted with the idea of having something to write about. I felt that a good title for his novel would be Eurydice Half-regained, but I was diffident about suggesting a title to him, besides which I felt he would not like it. Miss Brandon, he would explain, was not like Eurydice, and if she was, she had forgotten her experiences beyond the Styx.

"You see if a sensible marriage had been arranged for her, all this would not have happened. She would have now had a home and children."

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