The Garden Without Walls

The Garden Without Walls

Coningsby Dawson

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It happened about six in the morning, in a large red room. A bar of sunlight streamed in at the window, in which dust-motes were dancing by the thousand. A man and woman were lying in bed; I was standing up in my cot, plucking at the woman with my podgy fingers. She stirred, turned, rubbed her eyes, smiled, stretched out her arms, and drew me under the bed-clothes beside her. The man slept on.

BOOK I-THE WALLED-IN GARDEN

And God planted a garden and drove out man; and he placed at the east of Eden angels and the flame of a sword.


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The Garden Without Walls
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BOOK I-THE WALLED-IN GARDEN

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CHAPTER I-MY MOTHER

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CHAPTER II-THE MAGIC CARPET

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CHAPTER III-THE SPUFFLER

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CHAPTER IV-RUTHITA

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CHAPTER V-MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO HETTY

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CHAPTER VI-THE YONDER LAND

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CHAPTER VII-THE OPEN WORLD

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CHAPTER VIII-RECAPTURED

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CHAPTER IX-THE SNOW LADY

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BOOK II-THE PULLING DOWN OF THE WALLS

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CHAPTER I-THE RED HOUSE

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CHAPTER II-CHILDISH SORROWS AND CHILDISH COMFORTERS

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CHAPTER III-THE WORLD OF BOYS

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CHAPTER IV-NEW HORIZONS

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CHAPTER V-THE AWAKENING

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CHAPTER VI-WHAT IS LOVE

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CHAPTER VII-THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPUFFLER

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CHAPTER VIII-MONEY AND HAPPINESS

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CHAPTER IX-THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES

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CHAPTER X-THE LAST OF THE RED HOUSE

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CHAPTER XI-STAR-DUST DAYS

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BOOK III-THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS

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CHAPTER I-I MEET HER

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CHAPTER II-I MEET HER AGAIN

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CHAPTER III-FATE

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CHAPTER IV-THE TRUTH ABOUT HER

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CHAPTER V-LUCK TURNS IN MY FAVOR

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CHAPTER VI-MOTHS

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CHAPTER VII-THE GARDEN OF TEMPTATION

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CHAPTER VIII-THE WAY OF ALL FLESH

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CHAPTER IX-THE ELOPEMENT

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CHAPTER X-PUPPETS OF DESIRE

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CHAPTER XI-SPRING WEATHER

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CHAPTER XII-THE BACK-DOOR OF THE WORLD

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CHAPTER XIII-THE TURNING POINT

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CHAPTER XIV-I GO TO SHEBA

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CHAPTER XV-THE FLAME OF A SWORD

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BOOK IV-THE FRUIT OF THE GARDEN

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CHAPTER I-THE HOME-COMING

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