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BOOK I—LIFE TILL TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER I—MRS. SHEERUG’S GARDEN
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et o’ morta
of lime that he was stirring and regarded the exce
e, and don’t you put your ’ead on one
uttered an apology. “
is back on his helper, he gave the brick which he had just lai
un up his throat and, at the last moment, thought better of it. “But I was thinking,” he persisted; “thinking that I’d learnt something fro
ledge like that as saves men from the gallers. If ’alf the murderers that is ’anged ’ad come to me first, they wouldn’t be ’anging. But—but——” He seemed
ut it. I’d put off till you was stooping, and then jump. What with you being so short of breath and me being so long in
ldren.” He attempted to go on with his bricklaying, but the memory of Mr. Hughes’s long arms and legs so immediately behind him was disturbing. He swung round holding his trowel like
e had hoped to give pleasure. “
pse of your conversations, you presoom, Mr. Ooze, and I don’t mind telling you—you really
am up and swirled in eddies. In his own garden, only six walls distant, their sigh was gentle as Dearie’s footstep—but something had happened to Dearie; Jimmie Boy had told him so that morning. “Teddy, little man, it’s happened again”—the inform
n books which he had been commissioned to illustrate. She was the faery-godmother in his Cinderella and Other Ancient Tales: With!6 Plates in color by James Gurney. She was Mother Santa Claus in his Christmas Up to Date. They had rather wanted to get to know her, this child-man and woman who seemed no older than their little son and at times, even to their little son, not half as sensible. They had wanted to get to know her because she wa
come arrayed for conquest. She had worn a green plush mantle, a blu
I’ve heard, and so I’ve dropped in to see what I can do. You mustn’t mind me; trying to be a mother to everyone’s
, I mean T
to call him Theo before a
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1 BOOK I—LIFE TILL TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER I—MRS. SHEERUG’S GARDEN2 CHAPTER II—THE FAERY-GODMOTHER3 CHAPTER III—VASHTI4 CHAPTER IV—THE ROUSING OF THE GIANT5 CHAPTER V—THE GHOST BIRD OF ROMANCE6 CHAPTER VI—A STRATEGY THAT FAILED7 CHAPTER VII—“PASHUN” IN THE KITCHEN8 CHAPTER VIII—THE EXPENSE OF LOVING9 CHAPTER IX—THE FOG10 CHAPTER X—THE WIFE OF A GENIUS11 CHAPTER XI—THE LITTLE GOD LOVE12 CHAPTER XII—DOUBTS13 CHAPTER XIII—SHUT OUT14 CHAPTER XIV—BELIEVING HER GOOD15 CHAPTER XV—THE FAERY TALE BEGINS AGAIN16 CHAPTER XVI—A WONDERFUL WORLD17 CHAPTER XVII—DESIRE18 CHAPTER XVIII—ESCAPING19 CHAPTER XIX—THE HIGH HORSE OF ROMANCE20 CHAPTER XX—THE POND IN THE WOODLAND21 CHAPTER XXI—VANISHED22 CHAPTER XXII—THE FEAR OF KNOWLEDGE23 CHAPTER XXIII—TEDDY AND RUDDY24 CHAPTER XXIV—DUKE NINEVEH ENTERS25 CHAPTER XXV—LUCK26 CHAPTER XXVI—DREAMING OF LOVE27 BOOK II—THE BOOK OF REVELATION CHAPTER I—THE ISLAND VALLEY28 CHAPTER II—A SUMMER’S NIGHT29 CHAPTER III—A SUMMER’S MORNING30 CHAPTER IV—HAUNTED31 CHAPTER V—SUSPENSE32 CHAPTER VI—DESIRE’S MOTHER33 CHAPTER VII—LOVING DESIRE34 CHAPTER VIII—FAITH RENEWS ITSELF35 CHAPTER IX—SHE ELUDES HIM36 CHAPTER X—AND NOTHING ELSE SAW ALL DAY LONG37 CHAPTER XI—THE KEYS TO ARCADY38 CHAPTER XII—ARCADY39 CHAPTER XIII—DRIFTING40 CHAPTER XIV—THE TRIFLERS GROW EARNEST41 CHAPTER XV—SLAVES OF FREEDOM42 CHAPTER XVI—THE GHOST OF HAPPINESS43 CHAPTER XVII—THE TEST44 CHAPTER XVIII—THE PRINCESS WHO DID NOT KNOW HER HEART45 CHAPTER XIX—AN OLD PASSION46 CHAPTER XX—SHE PROPOSES47 CHAPTER XXI—THE EXPERIMENTAL HONEYMOON48 CHAPTER XXII—SHE RECALLS HIM49 CHAPTER XXIII—HIS WAITING ENDS