A Study in a Generation
Reading edition
BY
ERNEST RAYMOND
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 1922
For all emotions that are tense and strong, And utmost knowledge, I have lived for these— Lived deep, and let the lesser things live long, The everlasting hills, the lakes, the trees, Who'd give their thousand years to sing this song Of Life, and Man's high sensibilities, Which I into the face of Death can sing— O Death, then poor and disappointed thing— Strike if thou wilt, and soon; strike breast and brow; For I have lived: and thou canst rob me now Only of some long life that ne'er has been. The life that I have lived, so full, so keen, Is mine! I hold it firm beneath thy blow And, dying, take it with me where I go.
CONTENTS
A PROLOGUE BY PADRE MONTY
BOOK I: FIVE GAY YEARS OF SCHOOL
Part I: Tidal Reaches
IRUPERT RAY BEGINS HIS STORY
IIRUPERT OPENS A GREAT WAR
IIIAWFUL ROUT OF RAY
IVTHE PREFECTS GO OVER TO THE ENEMY
VCHEATING
VIAN INTERLUDE
Part II: Long, Long Thoughts
VIICAUGHT ON THE BEATEN TRACK
VIIITHE FREEDHAM REVELATIONS
IXWATERLOO OPENS
XWATERLOO CONTINUES: THE CHARGE AT THE END OF THE DAY
XITHE GREAT MATCH
XIICASTLES AND BRICK-DUST
BOOK II: AND THE REST—WAR
Part I: "Rangoon" Nights
ITHE ETERNAL WATERWAY
IIPADRE MONTY AND MAJOR HARDY COME ABOARD
III"C. OF E., NOW AND ALWAYS"
IVTHE VIGIL
VPENANCE
VIMAJOR HARDY AND PADRE MONTY FINISH THE VOYAGE
Part II: The White Heights
VIIMUDROS, IN THE ISLE OF LEMNOS
VIIITHE GREEN ROOM
IXPROCEEDING FORTHWITH TO GALLIPOLI
XSUVLA AND HELLES AT LAST
XIAN ATMOSPHERE OF SHOCKS AND SUDDEN DEATH
XIISACRED TO WHITE
XIII"LIVE DEEP, AND LET THE LESSER THINGS LIVE LONG"
XIVTHE NINETEENTH OF DECEMBER
XVTRANSIT
XVITHE HOURS BEFORE THE END
XVIITHE END OF GALLIPOLI
XVIIITHE END OF RUPERT'S STORY