# Fancy free

Author: Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70255

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fancy+free+Phillpotts&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

mind and narrowness of horizon may be set a busy, bustling, inquiring spirit, not apt to be offended, and not readily rushing into enmity. He has, despite his frivolous affectation of gloom, the cheerfulness of a caged lark, and may, indeed, be likened to that sprightly songster at many points. There is a riotous joy of life in him, as in the bird, which, exhibited even in a prisoned fowl at all seasons, becomes irritating, but which, displayed in a human creature, must cause first amazement, then annoyance, and finally contempt. That he will have the energy and industry to complete and publish such a life of me as my friends have declared he designs is difficult to believe; while as for...

## Chapters

- [ill. Small indeed he must be confessed, but against his limitation of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fancy-free-70255/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part I determined to allow no Quixotic notions of what was and what was](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fancy-free-70255/chapters/2/index.md)