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Title: Living Alone

Author: Stella Benson

Release Date: February 4, 2005 [EBook #14907]
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LIVING ALONE

BY

STELLA BENSON

AUTHOR OF "I POSE," "THIS IS THE END"

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1920

_First Edition 1919_
_Reprinted 1920 (twice)_

This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor
should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so
many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and
there are still so many to be written, that I cannot believe that a
little alien book such as this, written for the magically-inclined
minority, can be considered too assertive a trespasser.

I have to thank the Editor of the _Athenaeum_ for allowing me to
reprint the poem "Detachment" and the first chapter of this book.
The courtesy of the Editor of the _Pall Mall Gazette_ in permitting
me to use again any of my contributions to his paper also enables
me to include in the fifth chapter the tragic incident of the Mad
'Bus.

S.B.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE 1

CHAPTER II

THE COMMITTEE COMES TO MAGIC 19

CHAPTER III

THE EVERLASTING BOY 53

CHAPTER IV

THE FORBIDDEN SANDWICH 75

CHAPTER V

AN AIR RAID SEEN FROM BELOW 97

CHAPTER VI

AN AIR RAID SEEN FROM ABOVE 129

CHAPTER VII

THE FAERY FARM 155

CHAPTER VIII

THE REGRETTABLE WEDNESDAY 195

CHAPTER IX

THE HOUSE