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Gilbert Parker. Wild Youth, Complete
Wild Youth, Complete
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WILD YOUTH
CHAPTER I. THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION
CHAPTER II. “MY NAME IS LOUISE”
CHAPTER III. “I HAVE FOUGHT WITH BEASTS AT EPHESUS”
CHAPTER IV. TWO SIDES TO A BARGAIN
CHAPTER V. ORLANDO HAS AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VI. “THINGS MUST HAPPEN”
CHAPTER VII. “THE ZOOLYOGICAL GARDEN”
CHAPTER VIII. THE ORIENTAL WAY OF IT
CHAPTER IX. THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES
“It’s been a great day—great.”
CHAPTER X. THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE
CHAPTER XI. LOUISE
CHAPTER XII. MAN UNNATURAL
CHAPTER XIII. ORLANDO GIVES A WARNING
CHAPTER XIV. FILION AND FIONA—ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN
CHAPTER XV. OUTWARD BOUND
CHAPTER XVI. THE CROSS TRAILS
CHAPTER XVII. THE SUPERIOR MAN
CHAPTER XVIII. YOUTH HAS ITS WAY
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Gilbert Parker
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Resentful and incredulous, the old man was about to speak, but the Young Doctor made an arresting gesture, and added:
“She has very little strength to go on with. She ought to be plump; her pulses ought to beat hard; her cheeks ought to be rosy; she should walk with a spring and be strong and steady as a soldier on the march; but she is none of these things, can do none of these things. You’ve got a thousand things to do, and you do them because you want to do them. There is something making new life in you all the time, but Mrs. Mazarine makes no new life as she goes on. Every day is taking something out of her, and there’s nothing being renewed. Sometimes neither good food nor ozone is enough; and you’ve got to take care, or you’ll lose Mrs. Mazarine.” He could not induce himself to speak of her as “wife.”
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