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Mazo de la Roche. Wakefield's Course
Wakefield's Course
Table of Contents
I. AT JALNA
II. THE MEETING AT THE PREYDE THEATRE
III. IN GAYFERE STREET
IV. AT COUSIN MALAHIDE’S
V. JOHNNY THE BIRD
VI. THE TRIO IN GAYFERE STREET
VII. WAKEFIELD AND MOLLY GRIFFITH
VIII. PREPARATIONS AND JOURNEY
IX. DERMOT’S LONELINESS
X. A PURCHASE AND A HUNT
XI. LONDON
XII. PLAY AND RECITAL
XIII. END OF A VISIT
XIV. RETURN TO JALNA
XV. YOUNG MAURICE
XVI. THE PLAY’S PROGRESS
XVII. IN THE RUINED ABBEY
XVIII. BACK IN TOWN
XIX. YOUNG MAURICE AND DERMOT COURT
XX. THE NEWS IN GAYFERE STREET
XXI. IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN
XXII. WREATHS OF HOLLY
XXIII. CHRISTMAS JOY
XXIV. TAKING DOWN THE WREATHS
XXV. RENNY AND MOLLY
XXVI. RENNY AND ALAYNE
XXVII. THE SEVERING
XXVIII. THE SHUTTLE
XXIX. NEW TENANTS FOR THE FOX-FARM
XXX. FINCH AT HOME AGAIN
XXXI. LEAVE-TAKINGS
XXXII. LETTERS
XXXIII. THE RESCUE
XXXIV. AUTUMN AGAIN
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Mazo de la Roche
Whiteoaks of Jalna
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The boy of the little group was four-year-old Archer. That had been Alayne’s maiden name and it was an annoyance to her that Renny should call him Archie. And of course, since Renny did, Adeline imitated and was being constantly reprimanded for it. He himself, proud of his name and wishing to emphasise it, pronounced it with a strong accent on the last syllable which was almost as irritating to his mother as the abbreviation.
As the greater part of his days was spent with girls much older than himself, Archer had to make the most of his masculinity. He was very straight, and the straightness was exaggerated by his carrying his chest high and his neck rigid. His face was inclined to thinness, but his arms and legs were sturdy, so that the pedestal of his small being looked firm indeed. He had fair hair, not sleek and glossy like Nook’s or fluffy like Roma’s, but dry and rather stiff. His forehead was high and white and beneath it his blue eyes looked out with an expression almost piercing. This expression seldom changed. He seemed to be searching for something and determined not to rest till he found it. His lips were thin and his mouth wide and usually turned down at the corners. When he did smile his look was sweet and rather surprised, as though he had not believed himself capable of being amused. He was the apple of Alayne’s eye and her constant annoyance. As an infant he had been perfect. She had thought of him as the reincarnation of her beloved father. But, as he developed, he was often an enigma. She could not believe that her father had ever behaved in such a way. She could only believe that he had inherited some perverse strain from the Whiteoaks or the Courts, and she spent many of her waking hours in trying gently to eradicate it and lost sleep over it at night. However, Archer went his own way with a kind of blind persistence. He apparently had some scheme of life, known only to himself, which he felt obliged to follow, no matter what suffering it caused to himself or others.
