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David BlaizeE.F. Benson David Blaize CHAPTER I There was a new class-room in course of construction for the first form at Helmsworth Preparatory School, and the ten senior boys, whose united ages amounted to some hundred and thirty years, were taken for the time being in the school museum. This w...

The ValkyriesEdward Frederic Benson The Valkyries PREFACE In the following pages an attempt has been made to render as closely as possible into English narrative prose the libretto of Wagner's "Valkyrie". The story is one little known to English readers, and even those who are familiar with the g...

The Capsina. An Historical NovelThe Capsina An Historical Novel CHAPTER I The little town of Hydra, white-walled and trailing its skirts in the Ægean, climbs steeply up the northeastern side of the island from which it is named, and looks towards the hills of Argolis on the mainland and the setti...

The Judgment BooksEdward Frederic Benson The Judgment Books / A Story CHAPTER I The terrace to the south of Penalva Forest lay basking in the sunshine of an early September afternoon, and the very bees which kept passing in and out from the two hives beneath the laurel shrubbery to the right seem...

Thorley WeirE.F. Benson Thorley Weir CHAPTER I The hottest day of all days in the hottest June of all Junes was beginning to abate its burning, and the inhabitants of close-packed cities and their perspiring congregations cherished the hope that before long some semblance of briskness might retur...

The Vintage: A Romance of the Greek War of IndependenceEdward Frederic Benson The Vintage / A Romance of the Greek War of Independence Part I THE VINEYARD CHAPTER I THE HOUSE OF THE ROAD TO NAUPLIA Nauplia, huddled together on the edge of its glittering bay, and grilled beneath the hot stress of ...

The House of Defence. Volume 2E. F. Benson The House of Defence v. 2 CHAPTER I MAUD was lying in a long chair on the lawn after lunch the following afternoon, defending Christian Science from the gibes (which were keen) of the mockers, who were many. She had an ally, it is true, in the person of ...

The House of Defence. Volume 1E. F. Benson The House of Defence v. 1 DEDICATIONTOC. E. MMy Dear Friend,It is with your permission that I dedicate this book to you, and with your permission and by your desire that I explain the circumstances of its dedication. You were cured, as both you and I kno...

ArundelArundel PROLOGUE CHAPTER I THE CALL FROM WITHOUT Colonel Fanshawe was riding slowly back to his bungalow about an hour before the sunset of a hot and brilliant day in the middle of March. He had spent a long day in the saddle, for the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Forces was at Peshawar...

The Angel of PainE. F. Benson The Angel of Pain FIRST THE garden lay dozing in the summer sun, a sun, too, that was really hot and luminous, worthy of mid-June, and Philip Home had paid his acknowledgments to its power by twice moving his chair into the shifting shade of the house, which stood wi...