Category: Novels
VINCENT PERRIN said to himself again and again as he climbed the hill: “It shall be all right this term”—and then, “It shall be”—and then, “This term.” A cold wintry sun watched him from above the brown shaggy wood on the horizon; the sky was a pale and watery blue, and on its...
One addressed one's ancestors, one arrayed one's traditions, one fashioned one's history, with flags and flowers and orations, but it was in the midst of the family that it was...
9. CHAPTER IX—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; WITH THE LADIES I.ISABEL told Mrs. Comber on that same afternoon at tea-time; but that good lady, owing to the interruption of the other good ladies and her own Mr. Comber, was unable to say anyt...
3. CHAPTER III—CONCERNS ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN BETWEENWHEN Mrs. Comber asked Vincent Perrin to her dinner-party he was delighted, although he assumed as great an indifference as possible. This was at the end of the first week of te...
11. CHAPTER XI—MR. PERRIN SEES DOUBLE I.MEANWHILE, many things had happened to Mr. Perrin during this month. On that night after Clinton had told him about Miss Desart's engagement to Traill, he did not go to bed for...
12. CHAPTER XII—MR. PERRIN WALKS IN SLEEP I.WITH examinations there comes a new element into the life of the term—it is an element of triumph in so far as it marks the approaching end of an impossible situation; it is, an...
4. CHAPTER IV—BIRKLAND LOQUITUR I.AT the end of his first month young Traill looked back, as it were from the top of a hill, and thought that it all had been very pleasant. How much of this pleasantness was due...
10. CHAPTER X—THE BATTLE OF THE UMBRELLA; “WHOM THE GODS WISH TODURING the month that followed, the battle raged furiously, and within a week of that original incident there was no one in the establishment who had not his or her especial gri...
14. CHAPTER XIV—MR. PERRIN REACHES THE HEART OF HIS KINGDOM I.HE was entirely unconscious of the world about him as he hurried across the green quadrangles to his rooms. He saw no sky, nor flying clouds, nor grass, nor gray buildings. He t...
6. CHAPTER VI—SÆVA INDIGNATIO I.TO Perrin, in his sleep that night there came, accompanied with roaring wind and crashing sea, a dream of the little man in red and black china that lived on the mantelpiece. He...
7. CHAPTER VII—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; THEY OPEN FIRE I.BUT, during the week that followed, Traill's good-temper slowly reasserted itself once more. After all, it was really impossible to be angry with anyone when the world was aligh...
2. CHAPTER II—INTRODUCES A CONFUSING COMPANY OF PERSONS, WITH SPECIALIT would be fitting at this moment, were it possible, to give Traill's impressions, at the end of the first week, of the place and the people. But here one is met by the outstan...
15. CHAPTER XV—THE GOLDEN VIEW I.WITH the coming dawn he knew what it was that he would do. He waited, sitting in his chair without moving and watching, with unseeing eyes, the gray cold pane of his window and...
8. CHAPTER VIII—THE BATTLE OP THE UMBRELLA; CAMPS ARE FORMED—ALSO SOMEISABEL DESART heard about it early on the afternoon of the same day. Traill himself told her as he stood with her for a moment outside the school gates before he went down to fo...
5. CHAPTER V—A GAME OF FOOTBALL AND A DANCE IN PENDRAGON HAVE THEIR PART INLATER there is Mr. Perrin heavily—with the midday mutton close about his head—surveying, in his dingy and tattered sitting-room, four small boys who gaze at him with staring eye...
1. CHAPTER I—MR. VINCENT PERRIN DRINKS HIS TEA AND GIVES MR. TRAILL SOUNDVINCENT PERRIN said to himself again and again as he climbed the hill: “It shall be all right this term”—and then, “It shall be”—and then, “This term.” A cold wintry sun watched...