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G. K. Chesterton. The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Incredulity of Father Brown
Table of Contents
I
THE RESURRECTION OF FATHER BROWN
II
THE ARROW OF HEAVEN
III
THE ORACLE OF THE DOG
IV
THE MIRACLE OF MOON CRESCENT
V
THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN CROSS
VI
THE DAGGER WITH WINGS
VII
THE DOOM OF THE DARNAWAYS
VIII
THE GHOST OF GIDEON WISE
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G. K. Chesterton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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John Adams Race, who had hitherto known only miracles of science, never found himself able in after years to describe the topsy-turvydom of the next few days. He seemed to have burst out of the world of time and space, and to be living in the impossible. In half an hour the whole of that town and district had been transformed into something never known for a thousand years; a mediæval people turned to a mob of monks by a staggering miracle; a Greek city where the god had descended among men. Thousands prostrated themselves in the road; hundreds took vows on the spot; and even the outsiders, like the two Americans, were able to think and speak of nothing but the prodigy. Alvarez himself was shaken, as well he might be; and sat down, with his head upon his hands.
And in the midst of all this tornado of beatitude was a little man struggling to be heard. His voice was small and faint, and the noise was deafening. He made weak little gestures that seemed more those of irritation than anything else. He came to the edge of the parapet above the crowd, waving it to be quiet, with movements rather like the flap of the short wings of a penguin. There was something a little more like a lull in the noise; and then Father Brown for the first time reached the utmost stretch of the indignation that he could launch against his children.
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