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KIPPS
THE STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL
Books by H. G. Wells
SHORT STORIES
Twelve Stories and a Dream
The Plattner Story and Others
Tales of Space and Time
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Stories
ROMANCES
The Food of the Gods
The Wonderful Visit
The War of the Worlds
The Invisible Man
The Time Machine
The First Men in the Moon
The Sea Lady
The Island of Dr. Moreau
NOVELS
Kipps
Love and Mr. Lewisham
The Wheels of Chance
SOCIOLOGICAL ESSAYS
A Modern Utopia
Anticipations
Mankind in the Making.
KIPPS
THE STORY OF A SIMPLE SOUL
BY H. G. WELLS
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1906
Copyright 1906, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published, 1906
"Those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives, or have hitherto moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move, will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversant with the manners and amenities of society."
Manners and Rules of Good Society
By a Member of the Aristocracy
CONTENTS:
Book I. | ||
The Making of Kipps | ||
PAGE | ||
I. | The Little Shop at New Romney | 3 |
II. | The Emporium | 36 |
III. | The Wood-Carving Class | 64 |
IV. | Chitterlow | 88 |
V. | "Swapped" | 117 |
VI. | The Unexpected | 128 |
Book II. | ||
Mr. Coote, the Chaperon | ||
I. | The New Conditions | 169 |
II. | The Walshinghams | 201 |
III. | Engaged | 218 |
IV. | The Bicycle Manufacturer | 245 |
V. | The Pupil Lover | 259 |
VI. | Discords | 282 |
VII. | London | 309 |
VIII. | Kipps Enters Society | 354 |
IX. | The Labyrinthodon | 380 |
Book III. | ||
Kippses | ||
I. | The Housing Problem | 395 |
II. | The Callers | 424 |
III. | Terminations | 443 |
BOOK I THE MAKING OF KIPPS
CHAPTER I THE LITTLE SHOP AT NEW ROMNEY
§1
Until he was nearly arrived at adolescence it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he was under the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other boys. Yet he had vague memories of a somewhere else that was not New Romney—of a dim room, a window looking down on white buildings—and of a some one else who talked to forgotten people, and who was his mother. He could not recall her features very distinctly, but he remembered with extreme definition a white dress she wore, with a pattern of little sprigs of flowers and little bows of ribbon upon it, and a girdle of straight-ribbed white ribbon about the waist. Linked with this, he knew not how, were clouded half-obliterated recollections of scenes in which there was weeping, weeping in which he