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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wooden Horse, by Hugh Walpole 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: The Wooden Horse Author: Hugh Walpole Release Date: November 6, 2008 [EBook #27180] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WOODEN HORSE *** Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: Hugh Walpole. _From a photograph by Messrs. Elliott & Fry_] THE WOODEN HORSE BY HUGH WALPOLE WITH A PORTRAIT MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1919 MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON -- BOMBAY -- CALCUTTA -- MADRAS MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK -- BOSTON -- CHICAGO DALLAS -- SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO COPYRIGHT _First Published April 1909 Second Impression October 1909 Wayfarers' Library 1914 New Edition 1919_ TO W. FERRIS AFFECTIONATELY "_Er liebte jeden Hund, und wuenschte von jedem Hund geliebt zu sein._"--FLEGELJAHRE (JEAN PAUL). CHAPTER I Robin Trojan was waiting for his father. Through the open window of the drawing-room came, faintly, the cries of the town--the sound of some distant bell, the shout of fishermen on the quay, the muffled beat of the mining-stamps from Porth-Vennic, a village that lay two miles inland. There yet lingered in the air the faint afterglow of the sunset, and a few stars, twinkling faintly in the deep blue of the night sky, seemed reflections of the orange lights of the herring-boats, flashing far out to sea. The great drawing-room, lighted by a cluster of electric lamps hanging from the ceiling, seemed to flaunt the dim twinkle of the stars contemptuously; the dark blue of the walls and thick Persian carpets sounded a quieter note, but the general effect was of something distantly, coldly superior, something indeed that was scarcely comfortable, but that was, nevertheless, fulfilling the exact purpose for which it had been intended. And that purpose was, most certainly, not comfort. Robin himself would have smiled contemptuously if you had pleaded for something homely, something suggestive of roa
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