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Title: Wild Youth, Volume Complete

Author: Gilbert Parker

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Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6291]

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WILD YOUTH

By Gilbert Parker

Volume 1.
I. THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION
II. "MY NAME IS LOUISE"
III. "I HAVE FOUGHT WITH BEASTS AT EPHESUS"
IV. TWO SIDES TO A BARGAIN
V. ORLANDO HAS AN ADVENTURE
VI. "THINGS MUST HAPPEN"
VII. "THE ZOOLYOGICAL GARDEN"
VIII. THE ORIENTAL WAY OF IT
IX. THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES

Volume 2.
X. THE MOON WAS NOT ALONE
XI. LOUISE
XII. MAN UNNATURAL
XIII. ORLANDO GIVES A WARNING
XIV. FILION AND FIONA--ALSO PATSY KERNAGHAN
XV. OUTWARD BOUND
XVI. AT THE CROSS TRAILS
XVII. THE SUPERIOR MAN
XVIII. YOUTH HAS ITS WAY

WILD YOUTH

CHAPTER I. THE MAZARINES TAKE POSSESSION

From the beginning, Askatoon had had more character and idiosyncrasy
than any other town in the West. Perhaps that was because many of its
citizens had marked personality, while some were distinctly original--a
few so original as to be almost bizarre. The general intelligence was
high, and this made the place alert for the new observer. It slept with
one eye open; it waked with both eyes wide--as wide as the windows of
the world. The virtue of being bright and clever was a doctrine which
had never been taught in Askatoon; it was as natural as eating and
drinking. Nothing ever really shook the place out of a wholesome control
and composure. Now and then, however, the flag of distress was hoisted,
and everybody in the place--from Patsy Kernaghan, the casual, at one
end of the scale, and the Young Doctor, so called because he was
young-looking when he first came to the place, who represented Askatoon
in the meridian of its intellect, at the other--had sudden paralysis.
That was the outstanding feature of Askatoon. Some places made a n