The Furnace
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Tommy and Betty Crevequer are brother and sister, they live a boheme life in Naples - they encounter the Venables - who enjoy observing they two young orphans "slumming it". A story of conventions and the way people perceive each other."Life might be a furnace, but here were things untouched by its flame, "Excerpt: ...the classification ' just scum.' With a side glance at Betty's part in the business, he admitted that there were also, beyond doubt, the things which a girl cannot do--beyond doubt, too, Betty had done them; but here old atmosphere did not come to his help: his ignorance was as o...
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- E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
- THE FURNACE
- AUTHOR OF 'ABBOTS VERNEY'
- LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1907
- TO THE OTHER CITIZENS OF SANTA CATERINA, VARAZZE, WHO, AT PRESENT SCATTERED LABORIOUSLY OVER THREE CONTINENTS, INTEND, IN THE SPACIOUS DAYS OF LEISURE THAT AGE SHALL BRING, TO INHABIT AGAIN THE RED HOUSE BEYOND THE TOWN AND NAVIGATE THE WHITE CANOE.
- CONTENTS
- THE FURNACE
- CHAPTER I
- YOUTH IN THE CITY
- CHAPTER II
- THE IMPRESSION-SEEKER
- CHAPTER III
- OF MENTAL STANDPOINTS
- CHAPTER IV
- BLIND WALLS
- CHAPTER V
- BAIÆ'S BAY
- CHAPTER VI
- GRADONI
- CHAPTER VII
- RETROSPECT WITH THE SEARCH-LIGHT
- CHAPTER VIII
- BROKEN BARRIERS
- CHAPTER IX
- FURNACE FLAMES
- CHAPTER X
- BETTY AND TOMMY
- CHAPTER XI
- THE ETERNAL ROADS
- CHAPTER XII
- THE ROADS DIVIDE
- CHAPTER XIII
- PINE-BARK BOATS
- THE END
- ABBOTS VERNEY
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