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Title: The Inside of the Cup, Volume 1

Author: Winston Churchill

Release Date: October 17, 2004 [EBook #5356]

Language: English

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THE INSIDE OF THE CUP

By Winston Churchill

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ALL VOLUMES:

Volume 1.
I. THE WARING PROBLEMS
II. MR. LANGMAID'S MISSION
III. THE PRIMROSE PATH
IV. SOME RIDDLES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Volume 2.
V. THE RECTOR HAS MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
VI. "WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT"
VII. THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD
VIII. THE LINE of LEAST RESISTANCE.

Volume 3.
IX. THE DIVINE DISCONTENT
X. THE MESSENGER IN THE CHURCH
XI. THE LOST PARISHIONER
XII. THE WOMAN OF THE SONG

Volume 4.
XIII. WINTERBOURNE
XIV. A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
XV. THE CRUCIBLE
XVI. AMID THE ENCIRCLING GLOOM

Volume 5.
XVII. RECONSTRUCTION
XVIII. THE RIDDLE OF CAUSATION
XIX. MR. GOODRICH BECOMES A PARTISAN

Volume 6.
XX. THE ARRAIGNMENT
XXI. ALISON GOES TO CHURCH
XXII. WHICH SAY TO THE SEERS, SEE NOT!

Volume 7.
XXIII. THE CHOICE
XXIV. THE VESTRY MEETS
XXV. "RISE, CROWNED WITH LIGHT!"
XXVI. THE CURRENT OF LIFE

Volume 8.
XXVII. RETRIBUTION
XXVIII. LIGHT

THE INSIDE OF THE CUP

Volume 1.

CHAPTER I

THE WARING PROBLEMS

I

With few exceptions, the incidents recorded in these pages take place in
one of the largest cities of the United States of America, and of that
portion called the Middle West,--a city once conservative and provincial,
and rather proud of these qualities; but now outgrown them, and linked by
lightning limited trains to other teeming centers of the modern world: a
city overtaken, in recent years, by the plague which has swept our
country from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Prosperity. Before its advent,
the Goodriches and Gores, the Warings, the Prestons and the Atterburys
lived leisurely lives in a sleepy quarter of shade trees and spacious
yards and muddy macadam streets, now passed away forever. Existence was
dec