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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The War of the Wenuses, by C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas 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.net Title: The War of the Wenuses Author: C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Release Date: January 13, 2005 [eBook #14678] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WAR OF THE WENUSES*** E-text prepared by David Starner, Edna Badalian, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE WAR OF THE WENUSES by C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS Reprint of the 1898 ed. published by J. W. Arrowsmith Bristol, Eng. [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE INVISIBLE AUTHOR. (From a Negative by THE SPECTROSCOPIC Co.)] THE WAR OF THE WENUSES Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli Author of _The Treadmill_, _The Isthmus of Dr. Day_, _The Vanishing Lady_, etc., etc. by C. L. GRAVES AND E. V. LUCAS "Not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science, books" _The Artilleryman_ [Illustration: Arrowsmith colophon] TO H. G. WELLS THIS OUTRAGE ON A FASCINATING AND CONVINCING ROMANCE CONTENTS BOOK I.--The Coming of the Wenuses. Chapter I. "JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER" II. THE FALLING STAR III. THE CRINOLINE EXPANDS IV. HOW I REACHED HOME BOOK II.--London Under the Wenuses. I. THE DEATH OF THE EXAMINER II. THE MAN AT UXBRIDGE ROAD III. THE TEA-TRAY IN WESTBOURNE GROVE IV. WRECKAGE V. BUBBLES APPENDIX A APPENDIX B BOOK I. The Coming of the Wenuses. The Coming of the Wenuses. * * * * * I. "JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER." No one would have believed in the first years of the twentieth century that men and modistes on this planet were being watched by intelligences greater than woman's and yet as ambitious as her own. With infinite complacency maids and matrons went to and fro over London, serene in the assurance of their empire over man. It is possible that the mysticetus does the same. Not one of them gave a thought to Wenus as a source of danger, or thought of it only to dismiss the idea of a
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