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Lucas Malet. Adrian Savage
Adrian Savage
Table of Contents
I. CONCERNING THE DEAD AND THE LIVING
CHAPTER I. IN WHICH THE READER IS INVITED TO MAKE THE. ACQUAINTANCE OF THE HERO OF THIS BOOK
CHAPTER II. WHEREIN A VERY MODERN YOUNG MAN TELLS A. TIME-HONORED TALE WITH BUT SMALL ENCOURAGEMENT
CHAPTER III. TELLING HOW RENÉ DAX COOKED A SAVORY OMELETTE, AND WHY GABRIELLE ST. LEGER LOOKED OUT OF. AN OPEN WINDOW AT PAST MIDNIGHT
CHAPTER IV. CLIMBING THE LADDER
CHAPTER V. PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK
CHAPTER VI. SOME CONSEQUENCES OF PUTTING NEW WINE INTO OLD BOTTLES
CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH ADRIAN HELPS TO THROW EARTH INTO AN OPEN GRAVE
CHAPTER VIII. A MODERN ANTIGONE
II. THE DRAWINGS UPON THE WALL
CHAPTER I. A WASTER
CHAPTER II. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
CHAPTER III. A STRAINING OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER IV. IN WHICH ADRIAN SETS FORTH IN PURSUIT OF THE. FURTHER REASON
CHAPTER V. WITH DEBORAH, UNDER AN OAK IN THE PARC MONCEAU
CHAPTER VI. RECORDING THE VIGIL OF A SCARLET HOMUNCULUS AND. ARISTIDES THE JUST
III. THE OTHER SIDE
CHAPTER I. RECORDING A BRAVE MAN'S EFFORT TO CULTIVATE HIS. PRIVATE GARDEN
CHAPTER II. A STRATEGIC MOVEMENT WHICH SECURES VICTORY. WHILE SIMULATING RETREAT
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH EUTERPE IS CALLED UPON TO PLAY THE PART. OF INTERPRETER
CHAPTER IV. SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SYMRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH ADRIAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF SOME INHABITANTS. OF THE TOWER HOUSE IS SENSIBLY INCREASED
CHAPTER VI. WHICH PLAYS SEESAW BETWEEN A GAME OF. LAWN-TENNIS AND A PRODIGAL SON
CHAPTER VII. PISTOLS OR POLITENESS—FOR TWO
CHAPTER VIII "NUIT DE MAI"
IV. THE FOLLY OF THE WISE
CHAPTER I. RE-ENTER A WAYFARING GOSSIP
CHAPTER II. IN THE TRACK OF THE BRAIN-STORM
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH THE STORM BREAKS
CHAPTER IV. ON THE HEIGHTS
CHAPTER V. DE PROFUNDIS
V. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
CHAPTER I. SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE's. LOCKED BOOK
CHAPTER II. RECORDING A SISTERLY EFFORT TO LET IN LIGHT
CHAPTER III. IN WHICH JOANNA EMBRACES A PHANTOM BLISS
CHAPTER IV "COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS"
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH ADRIAN MAKES DISQUIETING ACQUAINTANCE. WITH THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE
CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING A CURSE, AND THE MANNER OF ITS GOING. HOME TO ROOST
CHAPTER VII. SOME PASSAGES FROM JOANNA SMYRTHWAITE'S LOCKED BOOK
CHAPTER VIII. IN WHICH A STRONG MAN ADOPTS A VERY SIMPLE METHOD. OF CLEARING HIS OWN PATH OF THORNS
CHAPTER IX. WHEREIN ADRIAN SAVAGE SUCCEEDS IN AWAKENING. LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT
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Lucas Malet
A Novel
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Wrapped in a wadded silk dressing-gown, with frilled muslin cape and under-sleeves to it, Gabrielle St. Leger had made her nightly round. Had seen that lights were switched off, fires safe, shutters bolted, and the maids duly retired to their bedchamber. Had embraced her mother, and looked into details of night-light and spirit-lamp, lest the excessive cold should render some hot beverage advisable for the elder lady in the course of the night. Had visited Bette in the little room adjoining her own, and found the child snuggled down in her cot profoundly and deliciously asleep. Then, being at last free of further obligation to house or household, she turned the key in the lock of her bedroom door and sat down to think.
Until the day's work, its courtesies as well as its duties, was fully done she had agreed with herself not to think. For even startling events and agitating experiences should, in her opinion, be dealt with methodically in their proper season and order, without fear and without haste. Only so could you be both just and clear-sighted in respect of them. All of which—had she known it—went to prove a theory of Adrian's—namely, that in her case, as in that of so many modern women between the ages of eighteen and, say, eight and twenty, the reasoning, the intellectual, rather than the sensuous and emotional elements are in the ascendant.
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