The Lord of the Sea

Chapter 7 — THE ELM

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room, then vomiting its throng, discovered Loveday, an

conclude my fifth week in Westring. Wh

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ere...Hogarth, y

that

your body hints of adventurous Columbuses, Drakes, nimble Achilles; and sibylline meanings in so

was the matter with me when a boy I can't understand: I was the devil. One summer vacation (I was fourteen) I stole three pounds from the old man, and ran away one Sunday night. Passed through London and soon was apprentice in a blacksmith's shop in a Kent village called Bigham. But in six months I had the forge at my fingers' ends, and was off: nothing could hold me long. One day I turned up before the Recruiting

s, once leapt into mid-ocean; nor could the battleship hold me when she had noth

I made my way across the

ke like a woman-a grating in a wall between us. Ah, well, God is good, and His Mercy endureth for ever. But she said it could never be-she a Jewess: though that, by the way, is nons

frenzy-I drank like ten men-in a month was the terror of Westring. One midnight, going home through th

have", sa

th me. But I was saying: that midnight, as I passed the tree, drunk as I was, I saw a naked black man with a long beard run out; I t

rd have mercy upon me! Christ have mercy upon me! I was visited by the Methodist preacher

ing, who say that my God 'is not a personal God', and that my Christianity is 'rum stuf

and the sensation among these villagers was enormous, I can tell you, six years ago; now they come to be touched wit

Westring: and Loveday went with him a littl

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1 Chapter 1 — THE EXODUS 2 Chapter 2 — THE FEZ 3 Chapter 3 — THE HUNTING-CROP 4 Chapter 4 — THE SWOON 5 Chapter 5 — REID’S 6 Chapter 6 — “PEARSON’S WEEKLY”7 Chapter 7 — THE ELM 8 Chapter 8 — THE METEOR 9 Chapter 9 — HOGARTH’S GUNS 10 Chapter 10 — ISAAC 11 Chapter 11 — WROXHAM BROAD 12 Chapter 12 — THE ROSE 13 Chapter 13 — OUT OF THE WORLD 14 Chapter 14 — THE PRIEST 15 Chapter 15 — MONSIGNOR 16 Chapter 16 — THE ROPE 17 Chapter 17 — OLD TOM’S LETTER 18 Chapter 18 — CHLOROFORM 19 Chapter 19 — THE GREAT BELL 20 Chapter 20 — THE INFIRMARY 21 Chapter 21 — IN THE DEEP 22 Chapter 22 — OLD TOM 23 Chapter 23 — UNDER THE ELM 24 Chapter 24 — FRANKL SEES THE METEORITE 25 Chapter 25 — CHURCH ARCHITECTURE 26 Chapter 26 — FRANKL AND O’HARA 27 Chapter 27 — THE BAG OF LIGHT 28 Chapter 28 — THE LETTER 29 Chapter 29 — PRIORITY OF CLAIM 30 Chapter 30 — MR. BEECH 31 Chapter 31 — THE HAMMERS 32 Chapter 32 — WONDER 33 Chapter 33 — REEFS OF STEEL 34 Chapter 34 — THE “KAISER”35 Chapter 35 — THE CUP OF TREMBLING 36 Chapter 36 — THE “BOODAH” AND THE BATTLESHIPS 37 Chapter 37 — THE STRAITS 38 Chapter 38 — THE MANIFESTO 39 Chapter 39 — THE “BOODAH’S” LOCK-UP 40 Chapter 40 — THE VISIT 41 Chapter 41 — REBEKAH TELLS 42 Chapter 42 — THE LAND BILL 43 Chapter 43 — THE REGENCY 44 Chapter 44 — ESTRELLA, THE PROPHETESS 45 Chapter 45 — THE ORDER IN COUNCIL 46 Chapter 46 — THE EMIGRANTS 47 Chapter 47 — THE SEA-FORTS 48 Chapter 48 — THE DéBCLE 49 Chapter 49 — THE MODEL