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Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy
The Island of Fantasy
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. A MIND DISEASED
CHAPTER II. DE RERUM PARVULA
CHAPTER III. THE RECTOR’S ROMANCE
CHAPTER IV. A MASTERPIECE OF NATURE
CHAPTER V. CRISPIN IS PUZZLED
CHAPTER VI. SUB ROSA
CHAPTER VII. SOUVENT FEMME VARIE
CHAPTER VIII. ENDYMION
CHAPTER IX. THE PORTRAIT
CHAPTER X. A MODERN IXION
CHAPTER XI. THE CREED OF A MOTHER-IN-LAW
CHAPTER XII. THE NEW ARGONAUTS
CHAPTER XIII. THE PAST OF A POET
CHAPTER XIV. THE DEVIL’S PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER XV. THE STORM
CHAPTER XVI. MELNOS
CHAPTER XVII. AN ISLAND KING
CHAPTER XVIII. VENUS URANIA
CHAPTER XIX. A MODERN ARCADIA
CHAPTER XX. A DIFFICULT QUESTION
CHAPTER XXI. CAPTAIN ALCIBIADES
CHAPTER XXII. THE APPLE OF DISCORD
CHAPTER XXIII. BACCHANALIA
CHAPTER XXIV. THESPIAN
CHAPTER XXV. OLYMPIAN
CHAPTER XXVI. BEAUTIFUL PARIS, EVIL-HEARTED PARIS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ALTAR INSCRIBED ΘΕΌΝ
CHAPTER XVIII. PUNIC FAITH
CHAPTER XXIX. A ROLLING STONE
CHAPTER XXX. KEEPING VIGIL
CHAPTER XXXI. THE BATTLE OF TROGLODYTES
CHAPTER XXXII. THE WARNING OF HEPHAISTOS
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE INVOCATION OF ARTEMIS
CHAPTER XXXIV. A MODERN THERMOPYLÆ
CHAPTER XXXV. A COUNCIL OF WAR
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE FORLORN HOPE
CHAPTER XXXVII. UNDER THE UNION JACK
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE PREY OF THE GODS
CHAPTER XXXIX. JUSTINIAN’S REVENGE
CHAPTER XL. DEATH PAYS ALL DEBTS
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Fergus Hume
A Romance
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“Because it is your egotism makes you miserable. You care for no one but yourself, and are therefore bound to suffer from such selfishness. True happiness lies in self-abnegation, a virtue which all men preach, but few men practise. ‘Every man,’ says Goethe, ‘thinks himself the centre of the universe.’ This is true—particularly true in your case. You have been so much taken up with your own woes and troubles that you have had no time to see those of your fellow-creatures, and such exclusive analysis of one’s inner life leads naturally to self-sickness. You are torturing yourself by yourself; you have destroyed the sense of pleasure, and can therefore see nothing good on God’s earth. You would like to cut the Gordian knot by death, but have neither the courage nor resolution to make away with yourself. Oh, I know the reason of such hesitation.
‘’Tis better to endure the ills we have,
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