Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066191191

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       ONSLOW SQUARE

       CHAPTER II

       A DINNER PARTY

       CHAPTER III

       IN THE DRAWING-ROOM

       CHAPTER IV

       AFTER-TALK

       CHAPTER V

       EROS STEPS IN

       CHAPTER VI

       A LEAP OUTWARDS

       CHAPTER VII

       PATIENCE AND PSYCHE

       CHAPTER VIII

       AGAIN

       CHAPTER IX

       SUNDRY ROMANTIC EPISODES

       CHAPTER X

       AT A WORLD'S EDGE

       CHAPTER XI

       ANTEROS

       CHAPTER XII

       MARTLEY THICKET (1)

       CHAPTER XIII

       MARTLEY THICKET (2)

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE GREAT SCHEME

       CHAPTER XV

       JAMES

       CHAPTER XVI

       AMARI ALIQUID

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE SHIVERING FIT

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE HARDANGER

       CHAPTER XIX

       THE MOON-SPELL

       CHAPTER XX

       FAIR WARNING

       CHAPTER XXI

       THE DEPARTURE

       CHAPTER XXII

       CATASTROPHE

       CHAPTER XXIII

       JAMES AND JIMMY

       CHAPTER XXIV

       URQUHART'S APOLOGY

       EPILOGUE

CHAPTER I

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ONSLOW SQUARE

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      This is a romantic tale. So romantic is it that I shall be forced to pry into the coy recesses of the mind in order to exhibit a connected, reasonable affair, not only of a man and his wife prosperously seated in the mean of things, nel mezzo del cammin in space as well as time—for the Macartneys belonged to the middle class, and were well on to the middle of life themselves—, but of stript, quivering and winged souls tiptoe within them, tiptoe for flight into diviner spaces than any seemly bodies can afford them. As you peruse you may find it difficult to believe that Macartney himself—James Adolphus,