Category: Romance

My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman; A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares

Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960· 2 chapters· 8,779 words

The rain gave over about five o'clock, and the sun, having struggled unavailingly all day with a leaden November sky, burst forth in fiery rage, when but a few short minutes separated him from the horizon. His tawny splendour surrounded me as I trudged from Richmond, in Surrey...

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2. CHAPTER II.

With daylight, or such drear apology for it as a London November morning allows, I arose, prepared for my journey to the north, and wrote certain letters before starting for the...

1. CHAPTER I.

The rain gave over about five o'clock, and the sun, having struggled unavailingly all day with a leaden November sky, burst forth in fiery rage, when but a few short minutes sep...