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The End of the World: A Love Story

Chapter 5 AT THE CASTLE.

Word Count: 1361    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

culiarity, that it is all beautiful, from Pittsburgh to Cairo. Through the trees, on which the buds were just bursting, August looked out on the golden roadwa

and antique windows, and by an ingenious transformation the chimney, usually such a disfigurement to a log-house, was made to look like a round donjon keep. But it was strangely composite, and I am afraid Mr. Ruskin would have considered it somewhat confused; for while it looked like a rude castle to those who appr

jon chimney he pulled an alarm-cord. Immediately the head of Andrew Anderson was thrust out of a Gothic hole--you could not call it a window. His uncut hair, rather darker than auburn, fell down to his waist, and his shaggy red beard lay upon

uage was as archaic and perhaps as incongruous as his architecture. And then throwing out

story of the house, and the neighbors, who always had access to the lower rooms, regarded the upper part of the castle with mysterious awe. August was often plied with questions about it, but he always answered simply that he didn't think Mr. Anderson would like to have it

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pted Cervantes, Le Sage, Molière, Swift, Hood, and the then fresh Pickwick of Boz. To these he added the Georgia Scenes of Mr. Longstreet, insisting that they were quite equal to Don Quixote. I can only stop to mention one other department in his Academy. One case was devoted to the "Best Stories," and an admirable set they were! I wish that anything of mine were worthy to go into such company. His purity of feeling, almost ascetic, led him to reject Boccaccio, but he admitted Chaucer and some of Balzac's, and Smollett, Goldsmith, and De Foe, and Walter Scott's best, Irving's Rip Van Winkle, Bernardin St. Pierre's "Paul and Virginia," and "Three Months under th

for wood meant time, and time meant communion with his books. All of his domestic arrangements were carried on

? Grand old Dan Chaucer! Or, shall we study magical philosophy with Roger Bacon--the Friar, the Admirable Doctor? or read good Sir Thomas More? What would Sir Thomas have said if he could have thought that he would

ight, with the tenderness of a woman, and with the air of

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sit down on my sedilium, and let us hear how this uncivil and inconstant world treats you. It can not deal worse with you than it has with me. But I have had my revenge on it! I have been revenged! I have done as I pleased, and defied the world and all its hollow conventiona

s superficial. He and Andrew were bosom friends, and as he had often opened his heart to the master of the castle before, so now he had no di

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1 Chapter 1 IN LOVE WITH A DUTCHMAN.2 Chapter 2 AN EXPLOSION.3 Chapter 3 A FAREWELL.4 Chapter 4 A COUNTER-IRRITANT.5 Chapter 5 AT THE CASTLE.6 Chapter 6 THE BACKWOODS PHILOSOPHER.7 Chapter 7 WITHIN AND WITHOUT.8 Chapter 8 FIGGERS WON'T LIE9 Chapter 9 THE NEW SINGING-MASTER10 Chapter 10 AN OFFER OF HELP.11 Chapter 11 THE COON-DOG ARGUMENT.12 Chapter 12 TWO MISTAKES.13 Chapter 13 THE SPIDER SPINS.14 Chapter 14 THE SPIDER'S WEB.15 Chapter 15 THE WEB BROKEN.16 Chapter 16 JONAS EXPOUNDS THE SUBJECT.17 Chapter 17 THE WRONG PEW.18 Chapter 18 THE ENCOUNTER.19 Chapter 19 THE MOTHER.20 Chapter 20 THE STEAM-DOCTOR.21 Chapter 21 THE HAWK IN A NEW PART.22 Chapter 22 JONAS EXPRESSES HIS OPINION ON DUTCHMEN.23 Chapter 23 SOMETHIN' LUDIKEROUS.24 Chapter 24 THE GIANT GREAT-HEART.25 Chapter 25 A CHAPTER OF BETWEENS.26 Chapter 26 A NICE LITTLE GAME.27 Chapter 27 THE RESULT OF AN EVENING WITH GENTLEMEN.28 Chapter 28 WAKING UP AN UGLY CUSTOMER.29 Chapter 29 AUGUST AND NORMAN.30 Chapter 30 AGROUND.31 Chapter 31 CYNTHY ANN'S SACRIFICE.32 Chapter 32 JULIA'S ENTERPRISE.33 Chapter 33 THE SECRET STAIRWAY.34 Chapter 34 THE INTERVIEW.35 Chapter 35 GETTING READY FOR THE END.36 Chapter 36 THE SIN OF SANCTIMONY.37 Chapter 37 THE DELUGE.38 Chapter 38 SCARING A HAWK.39 Chapter 39 JONAS TAKES AN APPEAL40 Chapter 40 SELLING OUT.41 Chapter 41 THE LAST DAY AND WHAT HAPPENED IN IT.42 Chapter 42 FOR EVER AND EVER.43 Chapter 43 THE MIDNIGHT ALARM.44 Chapter 44 SQUARING ACCOUNTS.45 Chapter 45 NEW PLANS.46 Chapter 46 THE SHIVEREE.