REST HARROW
Reading edition
A COMEDY OF RESOLUTION
By Maurice Hewlett
“Rest Harrow grows in any soil.... The seeds may be sown as soon as ripe in warm, sheltered spots out of doors.... It is a British plant.” —WEATHERS
With Illustrations By Frank Craig
THI KANNICTHI
CONTENTS
BOOK I — OF THE NATURE OF A PROLOGUE, DEALING WITH A BRUISED PHILOSOPHER IN RETIREMENT
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II
III
BOOK II — SANCHIA AT WANLESS HALL
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VIII
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XI
BOOK III — INTERLUDE OF THE RECLUSE PHILOSOPHER
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II
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IV
BOOK IV — SANCHIA IN LONDON
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BOOK V — OF THE NATURE OF AN EPILOGUE, DEALING WITH DESPOINA
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V
ILLUSTRATIONS (not available in this edition) Wrote deliberately to each of her sisters The hum of cities, and buzz of dinner tables . . sound in his ears not at all. The housekeeper! This—person! He had eloquence, he thought, as he watched her, he had won. But he was anxious. She was such a deep one. Ploughman in the vales would sometimes see his gaunt figure on the sky-line. “Well, Sanchia,” he said, “here I am.” The great music went sobbing and chiding through her frame, like wounded nightingales. Senhouse came back to her bedside and put a little flower into her hand