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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Mere Accident, by George Moore 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: A Mere Accident Author: George Moore Release Date: March 28, 2004 [eBook #11733] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MERE ACCIDENT*** E-text prepared by Jon Ingram, David Cavanagh, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team A MERE ACCIDENT. BY GEORGE MOORE AUTHOR OF "A MUMMER'S WIFE," "A MODERN LOVER," "A DRAMA IN MUSLIN," "SPRING DAYS," ETC. Fifth Edition TO My Friends at Buckingham. Nearly twenty years have gone since first we met, dear friends; time has but strengthened our early affections, so for love token, for sign of the years, I bring you this book--these views of your beautiful house and hills where I have spent so many happy days, these last perhaps the happiest of all. G. M. CHAPTER I. Three hundred yards of smooth, broad, white road leading from Henfield, a small town in Sussex. The grasses are lush, and the hedges are tall and luxuriant. Restless boys scramble to and fro, quiet nursemaids loiter, and a vagrant has sat down to rest though the bank is dripping with autumn rain. How fair a prospect of southern England! Land of exquisite homeliness and order; land of town that is country, of country that is town; land of a hundred classes all deftly interwoven and all waxing to one class--England. Land encrowned with the gifts of peaceful days--days that live in thy face and the faces of thy children. See it. The outlying villas with their porches and laurels, the red tiled farm houses, and the brown barns, clustering beneath the wings of beautiful trees--elm trees; see the flat plots of ground of the market gardens, with figures bending over baskets of roots; see the factory chimney; there are trees and gables everywhere; see the end of the terrace, the gleam of glass, the flower vase, the flitting white of the tennis players; see the long fields with the long team ploughing, see the parish church, see the embowering woods, see the squire's house, see everything and love it, for everything here is England. * * *
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