The Hampdenshire Wonder

IV. THE MANNER OF HIS BIRTH 65 V. HIS DEPARTURE FROM STOKE-UNDERHILL 86 VI. HIS FATHER'S DESERTION 101 VII. HIS DEBT TO HENRY CHALLIS 113 VIII. HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHALLIS COURT 139

XIII. HOW I WENT TO PYM TO WRITE A BOOK 219 XIV. THE INCIPIENCE OF MY SUBJECTION TO THE WONDER 230 XV. THE PROGRESS AND RELAXATION OF MY SUBJECTION 251 XVI. RELEASE 268 XVII. IM...

Since we had left London I had been engrossed in Henri Bergson's "Time and Free Will," as it is called in the English translation. I had been conscious of various stoppages and...

Ginger Stott is a name that was once as well known as any in England. Stott has been the subject of leading articles in every daily paper; his life has been written by an able j...

Stott maintained an obstinate silence as we walked together up to the Common, a stretch of comparatively open ground on the plateau of the hill. He walked with his hands in his...

Stoke-Underhill lies in the flat of the valley that separates the Hampden from the Quainton Hills. The main road from London to Ailesworth does not pass through Stoke, but from...

The village of Stoke was no whit intimidated by the news that Mrs. Reade sowed abroad. The women exclaimed and chattered, the men gaped and shook their heads, the children hung...

The strongest of all habits is that of acquiescence. It is this habit of submission which explains the admired patience and long-suffering of the abjectly poor. The lower the in...

Challis was out of England for more than three years after that one brief intrusion of his into the affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Stott. During the interval he was engaged upon those...

"Shall you be able to help me in collating your notes of the Tikopia observations this morning, sir?" Lewes asked. He rose from the breakfast-table and lit a cigarette. There wa...

The Wonder toddled forward, unabashed, to enter his new world. On the threshold, however, he paused. His comprehensive stare took in a sweeping picture of enclosing walls of boo...

For many months after that long afternoon in the library, Challis was affected with a fever of restlessness, and his work on the book stood still. He was in Rome during May, and...

This is hardly the place in which to criticise a man of such diverse abilities as Deane Elmer, a man whose name still figures so prominently in the public press in connection wi...

Meanwhile a child of five--all unconscious that he was being represented to various members of the Local Education Authority as a protégé under the especial care and tutelage of...

The circumstance that had intrigued me for so long was determined with an abruptness only less remarkable than the surprise of the onset. Two deaths within six months brought to...

Victor Stott was in his eighth year when I met him for the third time. I must have stayed longer than I imagined by the pond on the Common, for Mrs. Stott and her son had had te...

The memory of last summer is presented to me now as a series of pictures, some brilliant, others vague, others again so uncertain that I cannot be sure how far they are true mem...

Ellen Mary was staring at me, but it was clear that she neither saw nor heard me. She had a look of intense concentration. One could see that she was calculating, thinking, thin...

If there had been any traces of a struggle, I had not noticed them when I came to the edge of the pond. There may have been marks as if a foot had slipped. I was not thinking of...