Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Name: A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III.
Author: Francis William Lauderdale Adams

A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

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“A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III.”, published in 1894, is a work by Francis William Lauderdale Adams. It explores elements such as Maitland Street, calcined semblances and Dunraven Place.

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ Everywhere was dim. It seemed as if all the rigging of my soul's bark had turned to calcined semblances that fell, as calcined semblances fall, making no noise. And then it seemed as if some semblance of myself wandered to and fro, and round about, in this strange dim place, and thought and thought, trying to regain its hue and presence of health, and could not. Snatches of the music of that lifeful past came to me and grew into deeper colour, bringing hope of permanency—only to be lost again in this strange dim place of noiseless falling calcined semblances. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ The earth that You have made and the creatures that You have put into it are foul. You have given me thought. You have no right, be you God a thousand times, to make your creatures foul and then damn them for their foulness: You have no right to make them foul at all! ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ Looking at my booted toes shoving together on the carpet, I proceeded:
'I don't know what I'm going to do—supposing I am not caught, that is. But I dare say I shall be able to turn my hand to something or other that will do to keep body and soul together, and I dare say you, supposing you would care to come with me, might do the same. It's not a very inviting prospect to offer anyone—and there's worse to come yet. I don't believe in marriage. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ Then I stood looking in the Hampstead pool at in-numerous small up-leaping crescents of moonlight, as from a rain of moonlight only turning to colour as it struck. Sadness came to and grew of me, sadness almost of tears, thoughts of that past that was no more. I turned and set off homewards. The walking invigorated me.
By the time I had got to Dunraven Place, I was almost happy. I let myself in, and entered the library with an elastic step. The lamp was turned low, casting a tender rose-tinted shadow into the air. My supper was laid out, fruits and bread. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ If I have grief, I will not curse You for it. Henceforth, I am a stranger to You. If You are. You are to me as if You were not. If You are not——' I smiled.
'Enough of this,' I said: 'perhaps something too much. I am sorry I railed. And yet the poor cuckold that we call soul must pour forth the lava of its discovered deception, or it would burst. I have done now, I think.'
I looked up and saw the other letter lying on the table-cloth, where I had thrown it past my plate. This letter was Rosy's.
I stretched across to it: opened it; and glanced into it:
'. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ There were two letters on my plate.
'Two letters?' I thought, 'Who the devil should write to me?'
I lay back in the soft chair; reached to some grapes (I was a little hungry) , and the plate with the letters on it: put them on the table-cloth just under the lamp, and, eating grapes, observed them.
'One blue, stiff, and with two stamps. A double weight of nonsense probably. The other—... Rosy. Yes, that's her handwriting. What does the child want? I have not seen her for ...' (I took up her letter and looked closer at the address.) 'How long? Three weeks? ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ How much should I give the man?
I stood with two fingers in my waistcoat-pocket, considering a sovereign and an order to wait here for me. Then I determined no; and took out some silver, and gave him five shillings.
I went on alone to the corner of the turn that was to be taken for Maitland Street, and crossed over into the deeper shadow of the other side. The horse was wheeling round: the cab drove away with sounding hoof-strokes. I went on, but rather slowly. Then an idea came into my head to run as far as the corner of Maitland Street. I set off: came to the lamp-post: crossed over ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ She was gone. 1 could not have imagined that anything could have made your father, a man naturally of the most praiseworthy self restraint, and rendered doubly so by his steadfast relig . . . sat down and cried like a child. ”

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Francis William Lauderdale Adams, A Child of the Age — Part IV: Chapter III. (1894)

“ Good! Scientific, quite! Miss Rosebud can wait a little ... And now for you, my mystery of blue paper double-stamped. Who the devil are you, and what the devil do you want?... You rip up tenaciously.... An enclosure. Two. What's this? A cheque-book. And you, oh foreign-papered——' A sudden suspense was in me before I knew of it. I opened the foreign-papered letter of four sheets, and looked at the end of it—'Colonel James!' Then I recognised the writing. I had the other letter open in a moment, (from my mother, perhaps! from my father!) , and had glanced at it. 'Dead!' I glanced on:
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