Category: Humour
"Right," replied my brother-in-law. "That reduces us to faith-healing. On the command 'One,' make your mind a blank--that shouldn't be difficult--realise that the agony you aren't suffering is imaginary, and close both legs. One! On the command 'Two'----"
"Right," replied my brother-in-law. "That reduces us to faith-healing. On the command 'One,' make your mind a blank--that shouldn't be difficult--realise that the agony you aren...
2. Chapter 2We had slept, risen and breakfasted: we had visited Tours Cathedral: finally, we had mustered in the lounge of the hotel. It was when we had there been insulting one another for...
3. Chapter 3Five fat weeks had rolled by since Adele had eased Jonah of sixty pounds, and the Antoinette ring we had given her to commemorate the feat was now for the first time in danger o...
4. Chapter 4A natural result of our traffic with Planchet was that we became temporarily suspicious and careful to a fault. The horse had been stolen. For the next three weeks we locked not...
5. Chapter 5A week of fine days had slipped by. Most of these we had spent upon the open road. For fifty miles about Pau we had proved the countryside and found it lovely. This day we had d...
6. Chapter 6That Jill was in love with the Duke of Padua was only less manifest than that the Duke of Padua was in love with Jill. Something, however, was wrong. So much our instinct report...
7. Chapter 7Order, so to speak, having been restored, and the path of love made straight beyond all manner of doubt, we decided festively to make an excursion to Spain. The fact that Piers...
8. Chapter 8"I must have a paper," said Berry. "I haven't read the news for fifty-five hours, and--and anything may have happened. Supposing the rouble and the shilling have changed over. T...
9. Chapter 9"When I say," he said, "that I have a feeling to-day that my luck is in, I'm not being funny. Only once before have I had that conviction. I was at Cannes at the time--on the po...
10. Chapter 10The season at Pau was approaching the end of its course. Already villas and flats and servants were being engaged for the winter to come. We had been asked definitely whether we...
11. Chapter 11But for Susan, I should not have seen the Chateau, and, but for the merest accident, we should not have revisited Gavarnie. And that would have been a great shame.
12. Chapter 12_It's all finished now, and I can start for Paris to-morrow. I must stay there one night, to sign some papers, and then I can leave for Pau. And on next Sunday morning as ever i...