Front matter
Reading edition
A Novel In Three Parts
By Hugh Walpole
New York George H. Doran Company
1919
TO
MAJOR JAMES ANNAND (15TH BATTALION 48TH HIGHLANDERS, C.E.F.)
IN RETURN FOR THE GIFT OF HIS FRIENDSHIP
In the eastern quarter dawn breaks, the stars flicker pale. The morning cock at Ju-nan mounts the wall and crows. The songs are over, the clock run down, but still the feast is set. The Moon grows dim and the stars are few; morning has come to the world. At a thousand gates and ten thousand doors the fish-shaped keys turn; Round the Palace and up by the Castle, the crows and magpies are flying. Cock-Crow Song. Anon. (1st Century B.C.).
CONTENTS
PART I — VERA AND NINA
PART II — LAWRENCE
PART III — MARKOVITCH AND SEMYONOV