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Title: Noughts and Crosses
Stories, Studies and Sketches: The Omnibus; Fortunio; The Outlandish Ladies; Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman; The Return of Joanna; Psyche; The Countess of Bellarmine; A Cottage in Troy; Old Aeson; The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands; The Constant Post-Boy; A Dark Mirror; The Small People; The Mayor of Gantick; The Doctor's Foundling; The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff; Yorkshire Dick; The Carol; The Paradise of Choice; Beside the Bee Hives; The Magic Shadow

Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: May 19, 2005 [eBook #15865]
[Date last updated: July 7, 2006]

Language: English

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NOUGHTS AND CROSSES

Stories, Studies and Sketches

by

ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH (Q)

Two of the following stories were first published in _Longman's
Magazine_; the rest are selected from a number contributed to _The
Speaker_. For permission to reprint them I must sincerely thank the
two Editors.
Q.

TO MY WIFE.

CONTENTS.

The Omnibus.

Fortunio.

The Outlandish Ladies.

Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman.

The Return of Joanna.

Psyche.

The Countess of Bellarmine.

A Cottage in Troy--

I. A. Happy Voyage.

II. These-An'-That's Wife.

III. "Doubles" and Quits.

IV. The Boy by the Beach.

Old Aeson.

Stories of Bleakirk--

I. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands.

II. The Constant Post-Boy.

A Dark Mirror.

The Small People.

The Mayor of Gantick.

The Doctor's Foundling.

The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff.

Yorkshire Dick.

The Carol.

The Paradise of Choice.

Beside the Bee Hives.

The Magic Shadow.

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES.

THE OMNIBUS.

It was not so much a day as a burning, fiery furnace. The roar of
London's traffic reverberated under a sky of coppery blue; the
pavements threw out waves of heat, thickened with the reek of
restaurants and perfumery shops; and