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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Prelude to Adventure, by Hugh Walpole This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Prelude to Adventure Author: Hugh Walpole Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #19085] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE *** Produced by Andrew Hodson Transcriber's Note: Errors found: A name is sometimes spelt 'Med. Tetloe' and sometimes 'Med-Tetloe' & Cleopatre maybe wrong. So that just 7 bit text is used the accented & ligatured words are repeated here with numbers for codepages 437 & 850: Acute e 130 e: blase, chasmed, Cleopatre, elite & unperturbed i with 2 (or 3) dots 139 i: dais & dais ea ligature 145 ae: mediaeval u with 2 dots 129 ue: Duerer's 'The Hound of Heaven' poem, The letter to father and separate 'All things betray Thee Who betrayest Me.' quote are in a smaller font. THE PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE BY HUGH WALPOLE AUTHOR OF "MR. PERRIN AND MR. TRAILL" MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED, ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON _New Edition September_,1919 TO MY FRIEND R. A. STREATFIELD CONTENTS CHAP. I. LAST CHAPTER II. BUNNING III. THE BODY COMES TO TOWN IV. MARGARET CRAVEN V. STONE ALTARS VI. THE WATCHERS VII. TERROR VIII. REVELATION OF BUNNING (I) IX. REVELATION OF BUNNING (II) X. CRAVEN XI. FIFTH OF NOVEMBER XII. LOVE TO THE "VALSE TRISTE" XIII. MRS. CRAVEN XIV. GOD XV. PRELUDE TO A JOURNEY XVI. OLVA AND MARGARET XVII. FIRST CHAPTER Up vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat--and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet-- All things betray thee, who betrayest Me. The Hound of Heaven. 16 HALLAM STREET, _October_ 11, 1911. CHAPTER I LAST CHAPTER 1 "There _is_ a God after all." That was the immense convi
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