The Night of Temptation

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Victoria Cross. The Night of Temptation

The Night of Temptation

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I HOME

CHAPTER II IN THE WAYS OF DELIGHT

CHAPTER III THE GIFT

CHAPTER IV OUT OF THE STAGNANT HARBOUR

CHAPTER V CLEAR WATERS

CHAPTER VI PARADISE OR ...?

CHAPTER VII WITH THE GREAT RIVER

CHAPTER VIII THE LIONS OF THE DESERT

CHAPTER IX IN THE DARK WATCHES

CHAPTER X THE REACTION

CHAPTER XI VAE VICTIS

CHAPTER XII DAWN

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Victoria Cross

Published by Good Press, 2022

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"Am I?" she asked, smiling up at him. "I am so glad you think so. I am very fond of learning and all the arts. Are you? Painting, music, poetry, sculpture. They are the soul of life, I think. What should we do without them? Think if we had only in life the Church, dusters and the poor!"

Everest laughed, and so did she. "It does sound an awful combination! Yes, I think with you art is the one thing that brings a little heaven on earth. It is the only true religion, the only true elevator of that poor wretch—man. I am never so happy, and I never feel so good and so charitable, as when I am painting."

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