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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.
