Category: Novels
William Tully was a little over three-and-twenty when he emerged from the chrysalis stage of his clerkdom and became a Social Reformer. His life and doings until the age of twenty-three, had given small promise of the distinction of his future career; from a mild-mannered, pal...
"All right, I'll get it off, I'll help you. You were good to me giving me a drink, so I'll stay and help you. Otherwise I oughtn't to wait, not a minute--you see, I must look fo...
11. Part 11There followed a journey that to those who endured it seemed endless, a crawl punctuated with halts. The halts were lengthy as well as frequent; sometimes in sidings where refug...
9. Part 9He woke with the blaze of the eastern sun in his eyes, and on the first sensation of bewilderment at finding his bed was moss, came a rush of remembrance and with it self-reproa...
14. Part 14All the same, and in spite of coddling, the breakdown came as it was bound to do in the end; the doctor who refused had been wiser than the man who passed him. There was nothing...
13. Part 13Every head in the room went round with indignation to William--whom most of the gathering, Faraday included, now noticed for the first time. He was on his feet, stiffened and pa...
6. Part 6"Get on," Heinz repeated--adding, "damn you!" and worse--as the blade went up again; and William and Griselda obeyed him without further hesitation. Their heads were whirling an...
7. Part 7After what he had seen, and with the memory of Heinz's threats, William Tully believed most firmly that he too was about to die; and with the conviction there filled his heart (...
10. Part 10The cry had come from the hard-faced peasant woman who was leaning over Griselda. The life in William stood still as he saw her face, and she had to beckon to him twice before h...
12. Part 12He swallowed and halted again and she could only nod in silence. She knew enough of him by this time to know that what he said was truth, having learned in the course of their d...
4. Part 4They considered the point with that object in view, and decided that should the day prove fine they would spend it away from the cottage, taking their lunch with them. There was...
15. Part 15"Do you know what I think I am sometimes? a rat in a trap--or a squirrel spinning round in a cage. Very busy doing nothing.... I'll tell you one of the things I've been doing la...
3. Part 3They were married towards the end of July--to be exact, on the twenty-third day of the month. The wedding took place in Balham from the house of Griselda's aunt; the ceremony wa...
5. Part 5Griselda, uneasily pondering on other matters, had no mind to give to the experiment of an omelette, and their supper was plain boiled eggs--boiled hard while she sat with wrink...
2. Part 2Within a year, he had found his feet and was a busy and full-blown speaker--of the species that can be relied on to turn on, at any moment, a glib, excited stream of partisan fa...
1. Part 1William Tully was a little over three-and-twenty when he emerged from the chrysalis stage of his clerkdom and became a Social Reformer. His life and doings until the age of twen...