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Double Harness
The story revolves around Grantley Imason and his fiancée Sibylla Chiddingfold, exploring themes of love, marriage, and societal expectations.
"Double Harness" by Anthony Hope is a novel. The story revolves around Grantley Imason and his fiancée Sibylla Chiddingfold, exploring themes of love, marriage, and societal expectations.
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The house—a large, plain white building with no architectural pretensions—stood on a high swell of the downs and looked across the valley in which Milldean village lay, and thence over rolling stretches of close turf, till the prospect ended in the gleam of waves and the silver-grey mist that lay over the sea. It was a fine, open, free view. The air was fresh, with a touch of salt in it, and made the heat of the sun more than endurable—even welcome and nourishing. Tom Courtland, raising himself from the grass and sitting up straight, gave utterance to what his surroundings declared to be a very natural exclamation:
"What a bore to leave this and go back to town!"
"Stay a bit longer, old chap," urged his host, Grantley Imason, who lay full length on his back on the turf, with a straw hat over his eyes and nose, and a pipe, long gone out, between his teeth.
"Back to my wife!" Courtland went on, without noticing the invitation.
With a faint sigh Grantley Imason sat up, put his hat on his head, and knocked out his pipe. He glanced at his friend with a look of satirical amusement.
"You're encouraging company for a man who's just got engaged," he remarked.
"It's the devil of a business—sort of thing some of those fellows would write a book about. But it's not worth a book. A page of strong and indiscriminate swearing—that's what it's worth, Grantley."
Contents
- 01Chapter I Some Views of the Institution
- 02Chapter II the Fairy Ride
- 03Chapter III the Worldly Mind
- 04Chapter IV Initiation
- 05Chapter V the Birth of Strife
- 06Chapter VI Not Peace but a Sword
- 07Chapter VII a Vindication of Conscience
- 08Chapter VIII Ideals and Aspirations
- 09Chapter IX a Successful Mission
- 10Chapter X the Flinty Wall
- 11Chapter XI the Olive Branch
- 12Chapter XII Images and Their Work
- 13Chapter XIII the Dead and Its Dead
- 14Chapter XIV for His Love and His Quarrel
- 15Chapter XV in the Teeth of the Storm
- 16Chapter XVI the Upper and the Nether Stone
- 17Chapter XVII Wandering Wits
- 18Chapter XVIII the Rising Generation
- 19Chapter XIX in the Corner
- 20Chapter XX the Hour of Wrath
- 21Chapter XXI an Uncompromising Expression
- 22Chapter XXII Aspirations and Common Sense
- 23Chapter XXIII a Thing of Fear
- 24Chapter XXIV Friends
- 25Chapter XXV Picking Up the Pieces
- 26Chapter XXVI the Great Wrong
- 27Chapter XXVII Samples of the Bulk
- 28Chapter XXVIII to Life and Light Again
- 29Chapter XXIX with Open Eyes
About this edition
- Author
- Anthony Hope
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 400 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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