Snake and Sword

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Percival Christopher Wren. Snake and Sword

Snake and Sword

Table of Contents

PART I. THE WELDING OF A SOUL

PART II. THE SEARING OF A SOUL

PART III. THE SAVING OF A SOUL

PART I

THE WELDING OF A SOUL. CHAPTER I

THE SNAKE AND THE SOUL

PART II

THE SEARING OF A SOUL. CHAPTER II

THE SWORD AND THE SNAKE

CHAPTER III

THE SNAKE APPEARS

CHAPTER IV

THE SWORD AND THE SOUL

CHAPTER V

LUCILLE

CHAPTER VI

THE SNAKE'S "MYRMIDON"

A. L. WREN. CHAPTER VII

LOVE—AND THE SNAKE

"G.S.S."

CHAPTER VIII

TROOPERS OF THE QUEEN. GLIMPSES OF CERTAIN "POOR DEVILS" AND THE HELL THEY INHABITED

CHAPTER IX

A SNAKE AVENGES A HADDOCK AND LUCILLE BEHAVES IN AN UN-SMELLIEAN MANNER

A. L. WREN. CHAPTER X

MUCH ADO ABOUT ALMOST NOTHING—A TROOPER

"MY DEAR ORMONDE,

"LUCILLE GAVESTONE."

"MY DEAR MONTY,

"O. DELORME."

"MY OWN DARLING DAM,

"LUCILLE GAVESTONE."

"MY DARLING DAM,

"LUCILLE

CHAPTER XI

MORE MYRMIDONS

PART III

THE SAVING OF A SOUL. CHAPTER XII

VULTURES AND LUCK—GOOD AND BAD

"MY DARLING,

"LUCILLE

CHAPTER XIII

FOUND

CHAPTER XIV

THE SNAKE AND THE SWORD

SEVEN YEARS AFTER

EPILOGUE

A. L. WREN

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Percival Christopher Wren

A Novel

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"But hang it all, the thing's an Italian rapier, by Gad. Some one must have shown you how to make the thing, or you've got a picture. It's a pukka[5] mediaeval rapier."

"No it'th not. It'th my thword. I made it. … Have a jolly fight"—and the boy struck an extraordinarily correct fencing attitude—left hand raised in balance, sword poised, legs and feet well placed, the whole pose easy, natural, graceful.

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