Beggars on Horseback

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F. Tennyson Jesse. Beggars on Horseback

Beggars on Horseback

Table of Contents

A SHEPHERDESS OF FAUNS

THE LADDER

I. THE TRIAL

II. FIRST STEPS

III. THE WOOING

IV. THE SPELL

V. THE LOVE-POTION

VI. ATTAINMENT

THE GREATEST GIFT

THE MASK

A GARDEN ENCLOSED

II

III

IV

THE MAN WITH TWO MOUTHS

WHY SENATH MARRIED

THE COFFIN SHIP

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F. Tennyson Jesse

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"He will if I tell him," replied Désirée. "Come to me, Sylvestre," and drawing the child to her she stroked his head and whispered to him with a motherly gesture of which Archie would not have thought her capable. He had listened to her exceedingly modern views on the subject of the family, and her own strictly limited intentions in that respect.

It was on to the sensitive surface of this mood that a letter from Gwendolen, announcing her speedy arrival on the Riviera dropped like a dart, tearing the delicate tissues and stringing the fibres to the necessity for haste. Gwendolen, aunt-dragoned, and Baedeker in hand, meant the return to the acceptance of the old values that had once filled him with complacency. And yet, with all the jarring sense of intrusion that Gwendolen's advent instilled, there mingled a feeling that was almost relief—as though he were being saved, against his will, but with his judgment, from something too disturbing and beautiful to be quite comfortable.

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