The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece. Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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       Anne Douglas Sedgwick

      The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and the Masterpiece

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066173968

       THE NEST

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       THE WHITE PAGODA

       THE SUICIDE

       A COMEDY

       A FORSAKEN TEMPLE

       CHAPTER I

       MILLY

       CHAPTER II

       DICK

       CHAPTER III

       CHRISTINA

       MISS JONES AND THE MASTERPIECE

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       THE END

       Other Books by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

       TANTE

       FRANKLIN WINSLOW KANE

       AMABEL CHANNICE

       A FOUNTAIN SEALED

       THE SHADOW OF LIFE

       PATHS OF JUDGEMENT

       THE RESCUE

       THE CONFOUNDING OF CAMELIA

       THE DULL MISS ARCHINARD

       Table of Contents

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      He seemed to have had no time for thinking before he sank into a corner of the railway carriage and noted, with a satisfaction under the circumstances perhaps trivial, that he would have it to himself for the swift hour down to the country. Satisfactions of any sort seemed inappropriate, an appanage that he should have left behind him for ever on stepping from the great specialist's door in Wimpole Street two hours ago. When a man has but a month—at most two months—to live, small hopes and fears should drop from him: he should be stripped, as it were, for the last solitary wrestle in the arena of death.

      But the drive, from the doctor's to the city and from there to Paddington, had seemed unusually full of life's solicitations. The soft, strained eyes of an over-laden horse, appealing in patience from the shade of dusty blinkers; the dismal degradation of a music-hall poster—a funny man with reddened nose and drunken hat, as appealing in his slavery as the horse; the vaporous blue-green silhouettes of the Park on a silvery sky;—he had found himself responding to these with pity, repugnance and pleasure as normally as if they meant for him now what they always would have meant. That such impressions were so soon to cease must change all their meaning—at least, so one would have supposed; he began to think of that and to wonder a little over the apparent stoicism of those intervening hours; but, while the mood had lasted, the fact that he had come to the end of things, that there was a pit dug across his path, had done hardly more than skim on the outskirts of his alert yet calm receptivity. He seemed never to have noticed more, never to have been more conscious of the outer world and so little conscious of himself.

      Now, in the train, the outer world, wraith-like in a sudden summer shower, became the background as it sped on either side, and thoughts were in the foreground, thoughts of himself as doomed, and of the life that he had loved and worked in, as measured into one shallow cupful at his lips. Even yet it was almost absurd, the difficulty he found in realising it. The doomed figure detached itself, became that of a piteous, a curious alien, whom one watched respectfully and from a distance. From a safe shore he observed the tossing of the rapidly sinking skiff with its helpless occupant. It required a great pull, push, and effort of his whole being, like that of awakening from a half-dream, in order to see, in order to say to himself, really believing it, that

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