The Ivory Gate, a new edition
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Walter Besant. The Ivory Gate, a new edition
PROLOGUE. WHO IS EDMUND GRAY?
CHAPTER I. UP THE RIVER
CHAPTER II. IN THE OFFICE
CHAPTER III. THE SELECT CIRCLE
CHAPTER IV. A REBELLIOUS CHILD
CHAPTER V. SOMETHING HAPPENS
CHAPTER VI. SOMETHING MORE HAPPENS
CHAPTER VII. SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS
CHAPTER VIII. IN HONOUR OF THE EVENT
CHAPTER IX. AT THE GATES OF PARADISE
CHAPTER X. A MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XI. A MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XII. THE FIRST FIND
CHAPTER XIII. THINGS MORE REMARKABLE
CHAPTER XIV. CHECKLEY'S CASE
CHAPTER XV. WHO IS EDMUND GRAY?
CHAPTER XVI. THE VOICE OF DUTY
CHAPTER XVII. WAS HE IN RAGS?
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRODIGAL AT HOME
CHAPTER XIX. THE WHISPER OF CALUMNY
CHAPTER XX. HE COMES FROM EDMUND GRAY
CHAPTER XXI. I AM EDMUND GRAY
CHAPTER XXII. MASTER AND DISCIPLE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE HALL OF THE NEW FAITH
CHAPTER XXIV. CAN HE REMEMBER?
CHAPTER XXV. WILL HE REMEMBER?
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LESSON OF THE STREET
CHAPTER XXVII 'I KNOW THE MAN'
CHAPTER XXVIII. ATHELSTAN'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXIX. CHECKLEY SEES A GHOST
CHAPTER XXX. THE DAY AFTER THE GHOST
CHAPTER XXXI. THE THREE ACCOMPLICES
CHAPTER XXXII. ELSIE AND HER MOTHER
CHAPTER XXXIII. PLENARY CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXXIV. LE CONSEIL DE FAMILLE
CHAPTER XXXV. THE LAST
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE IVORY GATE
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'Can you not be content, George?' asked the girl sitting in the stern. 'I think that I want nothing more than this. If we could only go on always, and always, and always, just like this.' She had taken off her right-hand glove, and she was dipping her fingers into the cool waters of the river as the boat slowly drifted down stream. 'Always like this,' she repeated softly. 'With you close to me – so that I could touch you if I wanted to – so that I could feel safe, you know – the sun behind us, warm and splendid, such a sweet and fragrant air about us, trees and gardens and fields and lanes on either side – and both of us always young, George, and – and nice to look at, and all the world before us.'
When one says that her companion was a young man, nearly all is said, because the young men of the present day are surprisingly alike. Thousands of young men can be found like George Austin: they are all excellent fellows, of much higher principles, on some subjects, than their fathers before them; not remarkably intellectual, to judge by their school record: yet with intelligence and application enough to get through their examinations moderately: for the most part they do pass them with moderate success: they are not ambitious of obtaining any of the great prizes – which, indeed, they know to be out of their reach – but they always set before themselves and keep always well in sight the ideal suburban villa and the wife: they always work steadily, if not feverishly, with the view of securing these two blessings; they always hope to secure an income that will enable them to maintain that wife – with a possible following of babies – in silk attire (for Sundays); in ease as to household allowance; and in such freedom of general expenditure as may enable her to stand up among her neighbours in church without a blush.
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'So is many a younger man,' returned the clerk stoutly.
'Sometimes I cannot remember in the morning what I was doing the evening before.'
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