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Project Gutenberg's Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett 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: Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days Author: Arnold Bennett Release Date: February 2, 2004 [EBook #10911] [Date last updated: January 9, 2005] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BURIED ALIVE: A TALE OF THESE DAYS *** Produced by John Hagerson, Kevin Handy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team BURIED ALIVE A Tale of These Days BY ARNOLD BENNETT To JOHN FREDERICK FARRAR M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. MY COLLABORATOR IN THIS AND MANY OTHER BOOKS A GRATEFUL EXPRESSION OF OLD-ESTABLISHED REGARD CONTENTS I. THE PUCE DRESSING-GOWN II. A PAIL III. THE PHOTOGRAPH IV. A SCOOP V. ALICE ON HOTELS VI. A PUTNEY MORNING VII. THE CONFESSION VIII. AN INVASION IX. A GLOSSY MALE X. THE SECRET XI. AN ESCAPE XII. ALICE'S PERFORMANCES CHAPTER I _The Puce Dressing-gown_ The peculiar angle of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic-- that angle which is chiefly responsible for our geography and therefore for our history--had caused the phenomenon known in London as summer. The whizzing globe happened to have turned its most civilized face away from the sun, thus producing night in Selwood Terrace, South Kensington. In No. 91 Selwood Terrace two lights, on the ground-floor and on the first-floor, were silently proving that man's ingenuity can outwit nature's. No. 91 was one of about ten thousand similar houses between South Kensington Station and North End Road. With its grimy stucco front, its cellar kitchen, its hundred stairs and steps, its perfect inconvenience, and its conscience heavy with the doing to death of sundry general servants, it uplifted tin chimney-cowls to heaven and gloomily awaited the day of judgment for London houses, sublimely ignoring the axial and orbital velocities of the earth and even the reckless flight of the whole solar system through space. You felt that No. 91 was unhappy, and that it could only be rendered happy by a 'To let' standard in its front patch and a 'No bottles'
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