The Prelude to Adventure

Author:   Hugh Walpole ,  Sir Hugh Walpole
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Pages:   94
Publication Date:   27 January 2014
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The Prelude to Adventure


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There is a God after all. That was the immense conviction that faced him as he heard, slowly, softly, the leaves, the twigs, settle themselves after that first horrid crash which the clumsy body had made. Olva Dune stood for an instant straight and stiff, his arms heavily at his side, and the dank, misty wood slipped back once more into silence. There was about him now the most absolute stillness: some trees dripped in the mist; far above him, on the top of the hill, the little path showed darkly-below him, in the hollow, black masses of fern and weed lay heavily under the chill November air-at his feet there was the body. In that sudden after silence he had known beyond any question that might ever again arise, that there was now a God-God had watched him. With grave eyes, with hands that did not tremble, he surveyed and then, bending, touched the body. He knelt in the damp, heavy soil, tore open the waistcoat, the shirt; the flesh was yet warm to his touch-the heart was still. Carfax was dead. It had happened so instantly. First that great hulking figure in front of him, the sneering laugh, that last sentence, Let her rot . . . my dear Dune, your chivalry does you credit. Then that black, blinding, surging rage and the blow that followed. He did not know what he had intended to do. It did not matter-only in the force that there had been in his arm there had been the accumulated hatred of years, hatred that dated from that first term at school thirteen years ago when he had known Carfax for the dirty hypocrite that he was. He could not stay now to think of the many things that had led to this climax. He only knew that as he raised himself again from the body there was with him no feeling of repentance, no suggestion of fear, only a grim satisfaction that he had struck so hard, and, above all, that lightning certainty that he had had of God.

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Author:   Hugh Walpole ,  Sir Hugh Walpole
Publisher:   Createspace
Imprint:   Createspace
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.136kg
ISBN:  

9781495315510


ISBN 10:   1495315517
Pages:   94
Publication Date:   27 January 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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