Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932 / 2008-07-05 00:00:00

EBOOK YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, V2***

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YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK
[BEING THE STORY OF A MATRIMONIAL DESERTER]
By Gilbert Parker
Volume 2.

VI. "HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON"
VII. A WOMAN'S WAY TO KNOWLEDGE
VIII. ALL ABOUT AN UNOPENED LETTER
IX. NIGHT SHADE AND MORNING GLORY
X. "S. O. S."
XI. IN THE CAMP OF THE DESERTER


CHAPTER VI
"HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON"
The stillness of a summer's day in Prairie Land has all the
characteristics of music. That is not so paradoxical as it seems.
The effect of some music is to produce a divine quiescence of the senses,
a suspension of motion and aggressive life; to reduce existence to mere
pulsation. It was this kind of feeling which pervaded that region of
sentient being when Shiel Crozier told his story. The sounds that
sprinkled the general stillness were in themselves sleepy notes of the
pervasive music of somnolent nature--the sough of the pine at the door,
the murmur of insect life, the low, thudding beat of the steam-thresher
out of sight hard by, the purring of the cat in the arms of Kitty Tynan
as, with fascinated eyes, she listened to a man tell the tale of a life
as distant from that which she lived as she was from Eve.
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