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Title: The Emancipated

Author: George Gissing

Posting Date: July 12, 2009 [EBook #4311]
Release Date: August, 2003
First Posted: January 4, 2002

Language: English

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The Emancipated

by

George Gissing

CONTENTS

PART I

I NORTHERNERS IN SUNLIGHT
II CECILY DORAN
III THE BOARDING-HOUSE ON THE MERGELLINA
IV MIRIAM'S BROTHER
V THE ARTIST ASTRAY
VI CAPTIVE TRAVELLERS
VII THE MARTYR
VIII PROOF AGAINST ILLUSION
IX IN THE DEAD CITY
X THE DECLARATION
XI THE APPEAL TO AUTHORITY
XII ON THE HEIGHTS
XIII ECHO AND PRELUDE
XIV ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING
XV "WOLF!"
XVI LETTERS

PART II

I A CORNER OF SOCIETY
II THE PROPRIETIES DEFENDED
III GRADATION
IV THE DENYERS IN ENGLAND
V MULTUM IN PARVO
VI AT PAESTUM
VII LEARNING AND TEACHING
VIII STUMBLINGS
IX SILENCES
X ELGAR AT WORK
XI IN DUE COURSE
XII CECILY'S RETURN
XIII ONWARD TO THE VAGUE
XIV SUGGESTION AND ASSURANCE
XV PEACE IN SHOW AND PEACE IN TRUTH
XVI THE TWO FACES
XVII END AND BEGINNING

PART I.

CHAPTER I

NORTHERNERS IN SUNLIGHT

By a window looking from Posillipo upon the Bay of Naples sat an
English lady, engaged in letter-writing. She was only in her
four-and-twentieth year, but her attire of subdued mourning indicated
widowhood already at the stage when it is permitted to make quiet
suggestion of freedom rather than distressful reference to loss; the
dress, however, was severely plain, and its grey coldness, which would
well have harmonized with an English sky in this month of November,
looked alien in the southern sunlight. There was no mistaking her
nationality; the absorption, the troubled earnestness with which she
bent over her writing, were peculiar to a cast of features such as can
be found only i