'Don't get excited, James, I beg do remember your heart.' Pressed his left side, glancing at his wife as he did so. Me to worry about, less waste of money, less.' He gasped a little and Trouble, Mary, to consider my interests, if you took the trouble toĪscertain what we are paying for things, there would be less for 'If', said Colonel Ogden in a bitter voice, 'if you took a little more 'Mary! Be good enough to examine this item.' Colonel Ogden took it, and with the precision born of long practice He did not answer, and presently the servant returned book in When the grocer's book would be in the house.Ĭolonel Ogden caught the nervous tremor in her voice, and his smileĭeepened. Ogden quailed it was unfortunately the one day of all the seven The maid came in Colonel Ogden smiled coldly. Suggested something different, irritable lines that drew the corners of Were large and appealing, but there were lines about her mouth that Her neat hair, well netted, was touched with grey, her soft brown eyes She was a small woman, pale and pensive looking 'Oh, no, my love, ours is twopence cheaper.' He extended the paper towards his wife his hand shook a little, hisįace became very slightly suffused. 'Have you seen this advertisement of the Army and Navy?' His small, twinkling eyes scanned the columns of The TimesĪs if in search of something to pounce on. He sank into his arm-chair with a sigh he was fifty-five and somewhat His chair from the breakfast table, a signal for the family to have done Recapture the smell of the dining-room at Leaside.Ĭolonel Ogden looked at his watch it was nine o'clock, He pushed back The children had only to dose their eyes and think of their father to Produced an odour that became the very spirit of the room. The air, and together with the general suggestion of food and newspapers, The smell of the colonel's pipes, past and present, hung in Sternly into the camera, his pen was poised for the final word, authority Writing-table, his native servant at his elbow. The fireplace an enlargement showing the colonel seated in a tent at his And lest this should beĭoubted, there was Colonel Ogden's photograph in uniform that hung over The room itself in the intervals between. Master of the house brooded continually over the family meals and over All of which gave one to understand that the presence of the There was also a leatherĪrm-chair with a depression in the seat, a pipe-rack and some tins of ItĬontained, in addition to the mahogany sideboard with ornamental bracketsĪt the back, the three-tier dumb waiter and the dining-table with chairsĮn suite, a large roll-top desk much battered and ink-stained, andīleached by the suns of many Indian summers. The dining-room at Leaside was also Colonel Ogden's study. 'And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghostĬONTENTS: BOOK 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 BOOK 2 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 BOOK 3 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 BOOK 4 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 BOOK 5 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 GO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGE To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to Of the Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictions Be sure to check theĬopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particularĬopyright laws are changing all over the world. Which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook *ĭate most recently updated: November 2007 The Unlit Lamp, free ebooks, ebook, etextīROWSE the site for other works by this author
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