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The Garden Without Walls

CHAPTER I-MY MOTHER

Word Count: 882    |    Released on: 17/11/2017

cing 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. S

he same time as the body, but at a later period with the first glimmering of m

book will carry me much further. The scene is symbolic: a little child, inarticulate, early awakened in a sunlit room, vainly striving to make life an

at one summer's day, on a holiday at Ransby, she led me through lanes far out into the country till my legs were very tired. We came to a large white house, standing in a parkland. There we hid behind a clump of trees for hours. A horseman came riding down the avenue. My mother ran out from behind the trees and tried to make him speak

f I would like to have a sister. I refused stoutly. At dawn I was wakened by hurrying feet on the staircase. Next day I was given a ne

sidered rather dashing. She had been called "The gay Miss Fannie Evrard" and her marriage with my father had begun with an elopement. Her father was

only a reporter on the local paper at the time of his escapade; the Evrards lived at Woadley Hall and were reckoned

d not re-visit Ransby until years later. Pride prevented. My mother returned as often as finances would allow, in the vain hope of a reconciliatio

at her son's audacity. It was without parallel in her experience until I attempted to repeat his performance with an entirely indivi

n'. She was always mounted on a gray horse, with a touch of red about her. Sometimes it was a red feather in her hat and

me that my mother had gone to find her. I would sit for hour

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1 BOOK I-THE WALLED-IN GARDEN2 CHAPTER I-MY MOTHER3 CHAPTER II-THE MAGIC CARPET4 CHAPTER III-THE SPUFFLER5 CHAPTER IV-RUTHITA6 CHAPTER V-MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO HETTY7 CHAPTER VI-THE YONDER LAND8 CHAPTER VII-THE OPEN WORLD9 CHAPTER VIII-RECAPTURED10 CHAPTER IX-THE SNOW LADY11 BOOK II-THE PULLING DOWN OF THE WALLS12 CHAPTER I-THE RED HOUSE13 CHAPTER II-CHILDISH SORROWS AND CHILDISH COMFORTERS14 CHAPTER III-THE WORLD OF BOYS15 CHAPTER IV-NEW HORIZONS16 CHAPTER V-THE AWAKENING17 CHAPTER VI-WHAT IS LOVE18 CHAPTER VII-THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPUFFLER19 CHAPTER VIII-MONEY AND HAPPINESS20 CHAPTER IX-THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES21 CHAPTER X-THE LAST OF THE RED HOUSE22 CHAPTER XI-STAR-DUST DAYS23 BOOK III-THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS24 CHAPTER I-I MEET HER25 CHAPTER II-I MEET HER AGAIN26 CHAPTER III-FATE27 CHAPTER IV-THE TRUTH ABOUT HER28 CHAPTER V-LUCK TURNS IN MY FAVOR29 CHAPTER VI-MOTHS30 CHAPTER VII-THE GARDEN OF TEMPTATION31 CHAPTER VIII-THE WAY OF ALL FLESH32 CHAPTER IX-THE ELOPEMENT33 CHAPTER X-PUPPETS OF DESIRE34 CHAPTER XI-SPRING WEATHER35 CHAPTER XII-THE BACK-DOOR OF THE WORLD36 CHAPTER XIII-THE TURNING POINT37 CHAPTER XIV-I GO TO SHEBA38 CHAPTER XV-THE FLAME OF A SWORD39 BOOK IV-THE FRUIT OF THE GARDEN40 CHAPTER I-THE HOME-COMING41 CHAPTER II-DREAM HAVEN42 CHAPTER III-NARCOTICS43 CHAPTER IV-RUTHITA44 CHAPTER V-LA FIESOLE45 CHAPTER VI-SIR GALAHAD IN MONTMARTRE46 CHAPTER VII-SATURNALIA47 CHAPTER VIII-LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI48 CHAPTER IX-THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS49 CHAPTER X-THE FRUIT OF THE GARDEN