The Intercessor and other stories

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Sinclair May. The Intercessor and other stories

The Intercessor and other stories

Table of Contents

THE MAHATMA’S STORY

JONES’S KARMA

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II

III

HEAVEN

I

II

III

THE INTERCESSOR

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

EPILOGUE

THE VILLA DÉSIRÉE

I

II

III

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May Sinclair

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Varley’s case was complicated by his hideous jealousy of Reeve. And, of course, he fell in love with Muriel.

Those two women were as different as they could well be. Muriel was sombre and intense, black-haired and white, the blonde whiteness of honey. Delia’s hair was like a heavy gold helmet clapped on to her head, and her skin was exquisite; cyclamen-white and pink. Her mouth and eyes glistened as though water ran over them. Her mouth was very red, redder than fair women’s mouths generally are, and it had sulky corners. She was beautiful; but she had the temper of a she-devil. And Muriel really was a heavenly angel. You can’t blame Varley for falling in love with her. And you can’t blame Delia for falling in love with Reeve. Lots of women were in love with him. But that he should have become infatuated with Delia and Muriel with Varley, that’s the uncanny thing; he wasn’t that sort of man and she wasn’t that sort of woman; besides they hadn’t been married a year. This is where the Mahatma’s tale comes in.

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