Category: Novels
I think it is Edgar Allan Poe who says that while a plain thing may on occasion be told with a certain amount of elaboration of style, one that is unusual in its very nature is best related in the simplest terms possible. I shall adopt the second of these methods in telling th...
That evening I sat in Ker Annic, alone. Alec and Madge had gone out for an after-dinner walk, taking a silent Jennie with them. Silent too had been our return along the cliff-to...
1. PART II think it is Edgar Allan Poe who says that while a plain thing may on occasion be told with a certain amount of elaboration of style, one that is unusual in its very nature is...
7. PART IAs the little vedette approached Dinard Cale--I had got quickly through the Customs and come across with the hampers of that morning's fish--an Alec Aird out of a Men's Summer C...
5. PART IVA conspicuous feature about my small house in Surrey is its lake--eighty yards by forty of clear dark water among the oak and willows, spring-fed and with trout in it. This lake...
9. PART IIIThe Airds and their set bathed, not from the crowded plage of Dinard proper, but in the quieter bay of St Enogat. The beach glistened with minute particles of mica, deposited in...
2. PART II_Lost_: A man with a brass name-plate in his pocket, probably bent in wrenching. Personal appearance difficult to describe, because something has happened to him that does not h...
12. PART VThe next day we were five at the Hotel de la Poste. We sat long after luncheon, on the creeper-awninged terrace that overhangs the Petits Fosses. The other tables had long since...
11. did. Suppose, then, that this "A" memory were to go the way of his "Bone? And suppose in addition that, instead of merely resting on an even keel, he _should_ presently begin to forge ahead again? In that case he would once more be advancing on t...
6. PART V"George, you haven't brought your Beautiful Bear round to see me yet," said Madge Aird. And I jumped a little as she added, "By the way, does he happen to have a brother?"
3. PART IIIHe was not far from the end of the row, and in reaching him I had not to disturb more than three or four people. Though it is inadequate, I have decided that the single word tha...
4. book I shall be near it again. And"--he bent the grey-blue eyes solemnlyon mine--"shall I tell you what _would_ completely settle it? If anybody should see that ghost and scream!... I've got a most fearful power, George. A man who can make people sc...
10. PART IVThe Island is deserted only in that none but they come there; for them, just those two, it blossoms as the rose. Its story is the oldest story of all, and the newest. It is told...