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You Never Know Your Luck; Being the Story of a Matrimonial Deserter. Complete
The book centers around themes of love, sacrifice, and the complexities of human relationships, following the life of Shiel Crozier, a matrimonial deserter, as he navigates his past, present, and growing connections with characters like Kitty Tynan, who plays a crucial role in his life.
"You Never Know Your Luck" by Gilbert Parker is a novel. The book centers around themes of love, sacrifice, and the complexities of human relationships, following the life of Shiel Crozier, a matrimonial deserter, as he navigates his past, present, and growing connections with characters like Kitty Tynan, who plays a crucial role in his life.
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Have you ever seen it in reaping-time? A sea of gold it is, with gentle billows telling of sleep and not of storm, which, like regiments afoot, salute the reaper and say, “All is fulfilled in the light of the sun and the way of the earth; let the sharp knife fall.” The countless million heads are heavy with fruition, and sun glorifies and breeze cradles them to the hour of harvest. The air-like the tingle of water from a mountain-spring in the throat of the worn wayfarer, bringing a sense of the dust of the world flushed away.
Arcady? Look closely. Like islands in the shining yellow sea, are houses—sometimes in a clump of trees, sometimes only like bare-backed domesticity or naked industry in the workfield. Also rising here and there in the expanse, clouds that wind skyward, spreading out in a powdery mist. They look like the rolling smoke of incense, of sacrifice. Sacrifice it is. The vast steam-threshers are mightily devouring what their servants, the monster steam-reapers, have gleaned for them. Soon, when September comes, all that waving sea will be still. What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas.
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02You Never Know Your Luck
- 03Proem
- 04Chapter I. “Pioneers, O Pioneers”
- 05Chapter II. Closing the Doors
- 06Chapter III. The Logan Trial and What Came of It
- 07Chapter IV. “Strength Shall Be Given Thee”
- 08Chapter V. A Story to Be Told
- 09Chapter VI. “Here Endeth the First Lesson”
- 10Chapter VII. A Woman’s Way to Knowledge
- 11Chapter VIII. All About an Unopened Letter
- 12Chapter IX. Night Shade and Morning Glory
- 13Chapter X. “S. O. S.”
- 14Chapter XI. In the Camp of the Deserter
- 15Chapter XII. At the Receipt of Custom
- 16Chapter XIII. Kitty Speaks Her Mind Again
- 17Chapter XIV. Awaiting the Verdict
- 18Chapter XV. “Male and Female Created He Them”
- 19Chapter XVI. “‘Twas for Your Pleasure You Came Here, You Shall Go Back for Mine”
- 20Chapter XVII. Who Would Have Thought It?
- 21Epilogue
About this edition
- Author
- Gilbert Parker
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 134 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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