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The Yellow Crayon
The story introduces Mr. Sabin, a man of apparent prominence who is engulfed in a mysterious and troubling circumstance—the disappearance of his wife, the Duchess of Souspennier.
"The Yellow Crayon" by E. Phillips Oppenheim is a novel. The story introduces Mr. Sabin, a man of apparent prominence who is engulfed in a mysterious and troubling circumstance—the disappearance of his wife, the Duchess of Souspennier.
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It was late summer-time, and the perfume of flowers stole into the darkened room through the half-opened window. The sunlight forced its way through a chink in the blind, and stretched across the floor in strange zigzag fashion. From without came the pleasant murmur of bees and many lazier insects floating over the gorgeous flower beds, resting for a while on the clematis which had made the piazza a blaze of purple splendour. And inside, in a high-backed chair, there sat a man, his arms folded, his eyes fixed steadily upon vacancy. As he sat then, so had he sat for a whole day and a whole night. The faint sweet chorus of glad living things, which alone broke the deep silence of the house, seemed neither to disturb nor interest him. He sat there like a man turned to stone, his forehead riven by one deep line, his straight firm mouth set close and hard. His servant, the only living being who had approached him, had set food by his side, which now and then he had mechanically taken. Changeless as a sphinx, he had sat there in darkness and in light, whilst sunlight had changed to moonlight, and the songs of the birds had given place to the low murmuring of frogs from a lake below the lawns.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Chapter II
- 03Chapter III
- 04Chapter IV
- 05Chapter V
- 06Chapter VI
- 07Chapter VII
- 08Chapter VIII
- 09Chapter IX
- 10Chapter X
- 11Chapter XI
- 12Chapter XII
- 13Chapter XIII
- 14Chapter XIV
- 15Chapter XV
- 16Chapter XVI
- 17Chapter XVII
- 18Chapter XVIII
- 19Chapter XIX
- 20Chapter XX
- 21Chapter XXI
- 22Chapter XXII
- 23“His Highness, the Prince of Saxe Leinitzer!”
- 24Chapter XXIII
- 25Chapter XXIV
- 26Chapter XXV
- 27Chapter XXVI
- 28Chapter XXVII
- 29Chapter XXVIII
- 30Chapter XXIX
- 31Chapter XXX
- 32Chapter XXXI
- 33Chapter XXXII
- 34Chapter XXXIII
- 35Chapter XXXIV
- 36Chapter XXXV
- 37Chapter XXXVI
- 38Chapter XXXVII
- 39Chapter XXXVIII
- 40Chapter XXXIX
- 41Chapter XL
- 42Chapter XLI
- 43Chapter XLII
- 44Chapter XLIII
About this edition
- Author
- E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 174 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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