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Mrs. Falchion, Complete
The narrative unfolds through the perspective of Dr. Marmion, a ship-surgeon who finds himself entangled with the enigmatic and Mrs. Falchion during a sea voyage.
"Mrs. Falchion, Complete" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. The narrative unfolds through the perspective of Dr. Marmion, a ship-surgeon who finds himself entangled with the enigmatic and Mrs. Falchion during a sea voyage.
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The part I played in Mrs. Falchion’s career was not very noble, but I shall set it forth plainly here, else I could not have the boldness to write of her faults or those of others. Of my own history little need be said in preface. Soon after graduating with honours as a physician, I was offered a professional post in a college of medicine in Canada. It was difficult to establish a practice in medicine without some capital, else I had remained in London; and, being in need of instant means, I gladly accepted the offer. But six months were to intervene before the beginning of my duties—how to fill that time profitably was the question. I longed to travel, having scarcely been out of England during my life. Some one suggested the position of surgeon on one of the great steamers running between England and Australia. The idea of a long sea-voyage was seductive, for I had been suffering from over-study, though the position itself was not very distinguished. But in those days I cared more for pleasing myself than for what might become a newly-made professor, and I was prepared to say with a renowned Irish dean: “Dignity and I might be married, for all the relations we are.”
Contents
- 01Book I. Below the Sun Line
- 02Chapter I. The Gates of the Sea
- 03Chapter II. “Motley Is Your Only Wear”
- 04Chapter III. A Tale of No Man’s Sea
- 05Chapter IV. The Trail of the Ishmaelite
- 06Chapter V. Accusing Faces
- 07Chapter VI. Mummers All
- 08Chapter VII. The Wheel Comes Full Circle
- 09Chapter VIII. A Bridge of Peril
- 10Chapter IX. “The Progress of the Suns”
- 11Chapter X. Between Day and Dark
- 12Book II. The Slope of the Pacific
- 13Chapter XI. Among the Hills of God
- 14Chapter XII. The Whirligig of Time
- 15Chapter XIII. The Song of the Saw
- 16Chapter XIV. The Path of the Eagle
- 17Chapter XV. In the Trough of the Winds
- 18Chapter XVI. A Duel in Arcady
- 19Chapter XVII. Riding the Reefs
- 20Chapter XVIII. The Strings of Destiny
- 21Chapter XIX. The Sentence
- 22Chapter XX. After the Storm
- 23Chapter XXI. In Port
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 166 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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