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Hugh Walpole. Above the Dark Tumult: An Adventure
Above the Dark Tumult: An Adventure
Table of Contents
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. The Barber
CHAPTER II. Spindle-Shanks in a Dark Garden
CHAPTER III. Osmund
CHAPTER IV. The Tea Shop
CHAPTER V. Pengelly on Earth
CHAPTER VI. Pengelly in Heaven
CHAPTER VII. Extraordinary Adventures of a Corpse
BOOK II
CHAPTER VIII. Shadow Pursuing
CHAPTER IX. Helen
CHAPTER X. The Curate
CHAPTER XI. The Sandwich Bar
CHAPTER XII. Affirmers; Deniers
CHAPTER XIII. The Party
CHAPTER XIV. From the Stars Down
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Hugh Walpole
Published by Good Press, 2021
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And even now the guiding finger had not finished with me. I had landed, panting a little, as though I had run a long way, at the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue. There was now but a short step across to the other side of the street; facing me was the corner of the Trafalgar Theatre, and above it on the second floor the high windows of the big hairdresser’s establishment. I was about to take that step when someone jogged my elbow. I heard a thick, rather drunken voice say: ‘A fat lot of use God would be in this place,’ and, turning, saw above me, swinging over the heads of the crowd, a long pole and on the end of it a placard with the words: ‘Thou God seest Me.’
This pole was carried by an old gaunt man with a long straggling gray beard and a shabby coat that fell to his heels. He was shuffling along bearing his banner on high, and as he jostled me I noticed that he was feeling with his spare hand in his pocket for food.
