Manalive
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Chapter I. HOW THE GREAT WIND CAME TO BEACON HOUSE. A WI NO sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. In a Inillion holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. In the inmost cham bers of intricate and embowered houses it ...
MoreChapter I. HOW THE GREAT WIND CAME TO BEACON HOUSE. A WI NO sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. In a Inillion holes and corners it refreshed a man like a flagon, and astonished him like a blow. In the inmost cham bers of intricate and embowered houses it woke like a domestic explosion, littering the floor with some professor's papers till they seemed as precious as fugitive, or blowing out the candle by which a boy read" Treasure Island" and wrapping him in roaring dark. But everywhere it bore drama into undra- 18
Table of Contents
CON TEN T S ; oo 11 f; PART 1; THE ENIGMAS OF INNOCENT; SMITH; CHAP; 1 How THE GREAT WIND CAME TO; BEACON HOUSE o; II THE LUGGAGE OF AN OPTIM [ST; Ill THE BANNER OF BEACON o o; o; PAGK; IV THE GARDEN OF THE GOD 90; V THE ALLEGOR[CAL PRACTICAL JOKER 119; PART II; THE EXPLANATIONS OF INNOCENT; SMITH; 1 1~HE EYE OF DEATH; OR, THE MURDER; CHARGE 173; II THE Two CURATES; OR, THE BURGLARY; CHARGE o 229; IV CO:NTEN'rS; III THE ROUND ROAD; OR, Ttl E DESERTION; CHARGE 29 1; IV THE W JLD WEDDINGS; OR, THE POLYGAMY; CHARGE o 339; V How THE GREAT WIND WENT FROM; BEACON HOUSE o o 376
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