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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Between The Dark And The Daylight by William Dean Howells 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: Between The Dark And The Daylight Author: William Dean Howells Release Date: April 21, 2004 [EBook #12100] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Beginners Projects, Ben Beasley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: THEIR JOINT STUDY OF HER DANCING-CARD DID NOT HELP THEM OUT] BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT Romances BY W.D. HOWELLS 1907 CONTENTS CHAP. I. A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING II. THE EIDOLONS OF BROOKS ALFORD III. A MEMORY THAT WORKED OVERTIME IV. A CASE OF METAPHANTASMIA V. EDITHA VI. BRAYBRIDGE'S OFFER VII. THE CHICK OF THE EASTER EGG ILLUSTRATIONS THEIR JOINT STUDY OF HER DANCING-CARD DID NOT HELP THEM OUT A LIVELY MATRON, OF AS YOUTHFUL A TEMPERAMENT AS THE LIVELY GIRLS SHE BROUGHT IN HER TRAIN, BURST UPON THEM "SHE SHOOK HER HEAD, AND SAID,... 'NOBODY HAS BEEN HERE, EXCEPT--'" "NO BURGLAR COULD HAVE MISSED ME IF HE HAD WANTED AN EASY MARK" "'YOU SHALL NOT SAY THAT!'" "SHE GLARED AT EDITHA. 'WHAT YOU GOT THAT BLACK ON FOR?'" I A SLEEP AND A FORGETTING I Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him, and who wished him to test the air before settling there for the winter with an invalid wife. She was one of those neurasthenics who really carry their climate--always a bad one--with them, but she had set her mind on San Remo; and Lanfear was willing to pass a few days in the place making the observations which he felt pretty sure would be adverse. His train was rather late, and the sunset was fading from the French sky beyond the Italian shore when he got out of his car and looked round for a porter to take his valise. His roving eye lighted on the anxious figure, which as fully as the anxious face, of a short, stout, elderly man expressed a sort of distraction, as he stood loaded down with umbrellas, bags, bundles, and wraps,
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