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Title: Hugo
A Fantasia on Modern Themes

Author: Arnold Bennett

Release Date: April 26, 2005 [EBook #15712]

Language: English

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HUGO

A FANTASIA ON MODERN THEMES

BY
ARNOLD BENNETT

Transcriber's Notes:
Mismatched quotes have been normalized.
"L'eat, c'est moi." corrected to "L'etat, c'est moi."
Recalicitant corrected to recalcitrant.
Other oddities in spelling and punctuation have been
left as in the original.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

NOVELS.

A MAN FROM THE NORTH.
ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS.
LEONORA.
A GREAT MAN.
SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE.

FANTASIAS.

THE GRAND BABYLON HOTEL.
THE GATES OF WRATH.
TERESA OF WATLING STREET.
THE LOOT OF CITIES

SHORT STORIES.

TALES OF THE FIVE TOWNS.

BELLES LETTRES.

JOURNALISM FOR WOMEN.
FAME AND FICTION.
HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR.
THE TRUTH ABOUT AN AUTHOR.

DRAMA.

POLITE FARCES.

HUGO

A FANTASIA ON MODERN THEMES

BY
ARNOLD BENNETT

AUTHOR OF
'THE GRAND BABYLON HOTEL,' 'ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS,' 'A GREAT MAN,'
ETC.

[ILLUSTRATION]

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1906

CONTENTS

PART I
THE SEALED ROOMS

CHAPTER
I. THE DOME
II. THE ESTABLISHMENT
III. HUGO EXPLAINS HIMSELF
IV. CAMILLA
V. A STORY AND A DISAPPEARANCE
VI. A LAPSE FROM AN IDEAL
VII. POSSIBLE ESCAPE OF SECRETS
VIII. ORANGE-BLOSSOM
IX. 'WHICH?'
X. THE COFFIN

PART II
THE PHONOGRAPH

XI. SALE
XII. SAFE DEPOSIT
XIII. MR. GALPIN
XIV. TEA
XV. RAVENGAR IN CAPTIVITY
XVI. BURGLARS
XVII. POLYCARP AND HAWKE'S MAN
XVIII. HUSBAND AND WIFE
XIX. WHAT THE PHONOGRAPH SAID

PART III
THE TOMB

XX. 'ARE YOU THERE?'
XXI. SUICIDE
XXII. DARCY
XXIII. FIRST TRIUMPH OF SIMON
XXIV. THE LODGING-HOUSE
XXV. CHLOROFORM
XXVI. SECOND TRIUMPH OF SIMON
XXVII. THE CEMETERY
XXVIII. BEAUTY

PART I
THE SEALED ROOMS