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THE WONDER
By J. D. BERESFORD
These Lynnekers
The Early History of Jacob Stahl
A Candidate for Truth
The Invisible Event
The House in Demetrius Road
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
THE
WONDER
BY
J. D. BERESFORD
AUTHOR OF "THESE LYNNEKERS," "THE STORY OF JACOB STAHL," ETC.
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect and variant spellings have been retained. Greek text appears as originally printed, but with a mouse-hover transliteration, Βιβλος.
TO
MY FRIEND AND CRITIC
HUGH WALPOLE
MY FRIEND AND CRITIC
HUGH WALPOLE
CONTENTS
| PART ONE | ||
| MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Motive | 11 |
| II. | Notes for a Biography of Ginger Stott | 22 |
| III. | The Disillusionment of Ginger Stott | 58 |
| PART TWO | ||
| THE CHILDHOOD OF THE WONDER | ||
| IV. | The Manner of His Birth | 71 |
| V. | His Departure from Stoke-Underhill | 92 |
| VI. | His Father's Desertion | 107 |
| VII. | His Debt to Henry Challis | 118 |
| VIII. | His First Visit to Challis Court | 143 |
| Interlude | 149 | |
| THE WONDER AMONG BOOKS | ||
| IX. | His Passage through the Prison of Knowledge | 155 |
| X. | His Pastors and Masters | 179 |
| XI. | His Examination | 193 |
| XII. | His Interview with Herr Grossmann | 217 |
| XIII. | Fugitive | 229 |
| PART THREE | ||
| MY ASSOCIATION WITH THE WONDER | ||
| XIV. | How I Went to Pym to Write a Book | 235 |
| XV. | The Incipience of My Subjection to the Wonder | 247 |
| XVI. | The Progress and Relaxation of My Subjection | 267 |
| XVII. | Release | 284 |
| XVIII. | Implications | 299 |
| XIX. | Epilogue: The Uses of Mystery | 305 |
PART ONE
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
PART ONE
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
CHAPTER I
THE MOTIVE
I
I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.
Since we had left London, I had been struggling with Baillie's translation of Hegel's "Phenomenology." It was not a book to read among such distracting circumstances as those of a railway