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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CIIAPTEK III. To be locked into his bedroom in a strange house is a condition repugnant to every full- grown Englishman. It is duress, and it suggests midnight plunder by threat or violence. Ugly stories of murder and rapine in wayside taverns, inevitably prefaced by the locking of a bedroom door on the outside, flashed from some remote cranny of my memory where they had lain dormant since the days when shocking narrative had still the power to raise the hair upon my youthful head. I shook the solid door furiously, making uproar enough to reach to the farthest corners of the chateau, but it was strong enough to hold its own against any assault unfurnished by a battering ram. But there was still the window, and with the discovery that one of the gutter pipes made an easy ladder down into the garden came calmer reflection. To climb out into the night, travel-worn, leaving a comfortable bedroom towander shelterless till morning, was not an attractive prospect; and if I stayed, what, after all, had I to fear? My too pressing entertainers knew well enough that a cyclist is not worth robbing, and unless they were possessed by an eccentric lust for homicide, they could have no motive for murdering me in my sleep. Above all, there was the bed inviting a weary man, for all the unprofessional arrangement of its draperies. I compromised, as many a wiser man has done before when prudence fights with inclination. By dragging a heavy chest of drawers against the door I had a temporary rampart that would give me time to retreat by the window in the event of a night alarm. Thus protected, I lay down in my clothes, determined to keep vigil till the morning. I shall never be able to record the events of that night. I might save my self-respect by declaring that my glass of sour claret at t...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217150569
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 60
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021715056X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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