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Title: The Blue Pavilions

Author: Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Release Date: November 30, 2006 [eBook #19977]

Language: English

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THE BLUE PAVILIONS.

by

Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch (Q).

This e-text was prepared from a reprint of a version published in
1891.

TO A FORMER SCHOOLFELLOW.

MY DEAR ----,

I will not write your name, for we have long been strangers; and I,
at any rate, have no desire to renew our friendship. It is now ten
years and more from the end of that summer term when we shook hands
at the railway-station and went east and west with swelling hearts;
and since then no report has come of you. In the meantime you may
have died, or grown rich and esteemed; but that you have remained the
boy I knew is clearly beyond hope.

You were a genius then, and wrote epic poetry. I assume that you
have found it worth while to discontinue that habit, for I never see
your name among the publishers' announcements. But your poetry used
to be magnificent when you recited it in the shadow of the deserted
fives-court; and I believe you spoke sincerely when you assured me
that my stories, too, were something above contempt.

To the boy that was you I would dedicate a small tale, crammed with
historical inaccuracy. To-day, no doubt, you would recognise the
story of Captain Seth Jermy and the _Nightingale_ frigate, and point
out that I have put it seventeen years too early. But in those days
you would neither have known nor cared. And the rest of the book is
far belated.

Q.

Shiplake, 20 _November_, 1891.

CONTENTS.

Chap.

DEDICATION.

I. CAPTAIN JOHN AND CAPTAIN JEMMY.

II. THE DICE-BOX.

III. THE TWO PAVILIONS.

IV. THE TWO PAVILIONS (continued).

V. A SWARM OF BEES.

VI. THE EARL OF MARLBOROUGH SEEKS RECRUITS.

VII. THE CAPTAINS MAKE A FALSE START.

VIII. FATHER AND SON