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قراءة كتاب The Conquest of Canaan
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THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
BY
BOOTH TARKINGTON
To
L.F.T.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | ENTER CHORUS |
| II. | A RESCUE |
| III. | OLD HOPES |
| IV. | THE DISASTER |
| V. | BEAVER BEACH |
| VI. | "YE'LL TAK' THE HIGH ROAD AND I'LL TAK' THE LOW ROAD" |
| VII. | GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME |
| VIII. | A BAD PENNY TURNS UP |
| IX. | OUTER DARKNESS |
| X. | THE TRYST |
| XI. | WHEN HALF-GODS GO |
| XII. | TO REMAIN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE IS NOT ALWAYS A VICTORY |
| XIII. | THE WATCHER AND THE WARDEN |
| XIV. | WHITE ROSES IN A LAW-OFFICE |
| XV. | HAPPY FEAR GIVES HIMSELF UP |
| XVI. | THE TWO CANAANS |
| XVII. | MR. SHEEHAN'S HINTS |
| XVIII. | IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY |
| XIX. | ESKEW ARP |
| XX. | THREE ARE ENLISTED |
| XXI. | NORBERT WAITS FOR JOE |
| XXII. | MR. SHEEHAN SPEAKS |
| XXIII. | JOE WALKS ACROSS THE COURT-HOUSE YARD |
| XXIV. | MARTIN PIKE KEEPS AN ENGAGEMENT |
| XXV. | THE JURY COMES IN |
| XXVI. | "ANCIENT OF DAYS" |
THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN
I
ENTER CHORUS
A dry snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw; only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme whiteness. The wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of the school-children had ceased at nine o'clock with pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on the air; and the muffling of the thoroughfares wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday. This was the phenomenon which afforded the opening of the morning debate of the sages in the wide windows of the "National House."
Only such