# Episodes before thirty Author: Blackwood, Algernon, 1869-1951 Genre: Category: Biographies Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76991 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Episodes+before+thirty+Blackwood&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. I see a room in a New York boarding-house. I can touch the wooden bed, the two gas-brackets beside the looking-glass, the white door of the cupboard, the iron “register” in the wall that let in heated air, the broken sofa. The view from the dirty windows towards the high roof of Tony Pastor’s music hall in 14th Street, with a side glimpse of the trees in Irving Place, show clearly. The rattle of the Broadway cable cars, the clang of their bells, still come to me through that stifling August air, when the shade thermometer stood at a hundred, with humidity somewhere about 9... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/32/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/27/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/31/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/26/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/20/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/25/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/28/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/24/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/18/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/14/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/23/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/16/index.md) - [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/15/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/22/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/19/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/21/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/29/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/30/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/episodes-before-thirty-76991/chapters/6/index.md)