Paul Kelver
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Jerome Klapka Jerome. Paul Kelver
PROLOGUE. IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER
BOOK I
CHAPTER I. PAUL, ARRIVED IN A STRANGE LAND, LEARNS MANY THINGS, AND GOES TO MEET THE MAN IN GREY
CHAPTER II. IN WHICH PAUL MAKES ACQUAINTANCE OF THE MAN WITH THE UGLY MOUTH
CHAPTER III. HOW GOOD LUCK KNOCKED AT THE DOOR OF THE MAN IN GREY
CHAPTER IV. PAUL, FALLING IN WITH A GOODLY COMPANY OF PILGRIMS, LEARNS OF THEM THE ROAD THAT HE MUST TRAVEL. AND MEETS THE PRINCESS OF THE GOLDEN LOCKS
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH THERE COMES BY ONE BENT UPON PURSUING HIS OWN WAY
CHAPTER VI. OF THE SHADOW THAT CAME BETWEEN THE MAN IN GREY AND THE LADY OF THE LOVE-LIT EYES
CHAPTER VII. OF THE PASSING OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE MAN IN GREY MADE READY FOR HIS GOING
CHAPTER IX. OF THE FASHIONING OF PAUL
CHAPTER X. IN WHICH PAUL IS SHIPWRECKED, AND CAST INTO DEEP WATERS
BOOK II
CHAPTER I. DESCRIBES THE DESERT ISLAND TO WHICH PAUL WAS DRIFTED
CHAPTER II. PAUL, ESCAPING FROM HIS SOLITUDE, FALLS INTO STRANGE COMPANY. AND BECOMES CAPTIVE TO ONE OF HAUGHTY MIEN
CHAPTER III. GOOD FRIENDS SHOW PAUL THE ROAD TO FREEDOM. BUT BEFORE SETTING OUT, HE WILL GO A-VISITING
CHAPTER IV. LEADS TO A MEETING
CHAPTER V. HOW ON A SWEET GREY MORNING THE FUTURE CAME TO PAUL
CHAPTER VI. OF THE GLORY AND GOODNESS AND THE EVIL THAT GO TO THE MAKING OF LOVE
CHAPTER VII. HOW PAUL SET FORTH UPON A QUEST
CHAPTER VIII. AND HOW CAME BACK AGAIN
CHAPTER IX. THE PRINCESS OF THE GOLDEN LOCKS SENDS PAUL A RING
CHAPTER X. PAUL FINDS HIS WAY
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Fate intended me for a singularly fortunate man. Properly, I ought to have been born in June, which being, as is well known, the luckiest month in all the year for such events, should, by thoughtful parents, be more generally selected. How it was I came to be born in May, which is, on the other hand, of all the twelve the most unlucky, as I have proved, I leave to those more conversant with the subject to explain. An early nurse, the first human being of whom I have any distinct recollection, unhesitatingly attributed the unfortunate fact to my natural impatience; which quality she at the same time predicted would lead me into even greater trouble, a prophecy impressed by future events with the stamp of prescience. It was from this same bony lady that I likewise learned the manner of my coming. It seems that I arrived, quite unexpectedly, two hours after news had reached the house of the ruin of my father’s mines through inundation; misfortunes, as it was expounded to me, never coming singly in this world to any one. That all things might be of a piece, my poor mother, attempting to reach the bell, fell against and broke the cheval-glass, thus further saddening herself with the conviction – for no amount of reasoning ever succeeded in purging her Welsh blood of its natural superstition – that whatever might be the result of future battles with my evil star, the first seven years of tiny existence had been, by her act, doomed to disaster.
“And I must confess,” added the knobbly Mrs. Fursey, with a sigh, “it does look as though there must be some truth in the saying, after all.”
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My friend, my bosom friend, good Robin Hood! how would he have behaved under similar circumstances? how Ivanhoe, my chosen companion in all quests of knightly enterprise? how – to come to modern times – Jack Harkaway, mere schoolboy though he might be? Would not one and all have welcomed such incident with a joyous shout, and in a trice have scattered to the winds the worthless herd?
But, alas! upon my pale lips the joyous shout sank into an unheard whisper, and the thing that became scattered to the wind was myself, the first opening that occurred.
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