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Title: Somehow Good

Author: William de Morgan

Release Date: March 16, 2009 [EBook #28345]

Language: English

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SOMEHOW GOOD

BY

WILLIAM DE MORGAN

AUTHOR OF "JOSEPH VANCE"
AND "ALICE-FOR-SHORT"

[Publisher's Device: Ou polla, alla polu]

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1908

COPYRIGHT, 1908,

BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

_Published February, 1908_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
A RETURNED TRAVELLER. NEMESIS IN LIVERMORE'S RENTS, 1808.
EXTRAVAGANCE, AND NO CASH. A PAWNED WATCH, AND A RESIDUUM
OF FOURPENCE 1

CHAPTER II.

A JOURNEY IN THE TWOPENNY TUBE. A VERY NICE GIRL, AND A
NEGOTIATION. AN EXPOSED WIRE, AND AN ELECTROCUTION 10

CHAPTER III.

KRAKATOA VILLA, AND HOW THE ELECTROCUTED TRAVELLER WENT
THERE IN A CAB. A CURIOUS WELCOME TO A PERFECT STRANGER.
THE STRANGER'S LABEL. A CANCELLED MEMORY. BACK LIKE A BAD
SHILLING 16

CHAPTER IV.

HOW THE STRANGER STOPPED ON AT KRAKATOA VILLA. OF THE FREAKS
OF AN EXTINGUISHED MEMORY. OF HOW THE STRANGER GOT A GOOD
APPOINTMENT, BUT NONE COULD SAY WHO HE WAS, NOR WHENCE 35

CHAPTER V.

THE CHRISTMAS AFTER. OF THE CHURCH OF ST. SATISFAX, AND A
YOUNG IDIOT WHO CAME THERE 44

CHAPTER VI.

OF BOXING DAY MORNING AT KRAKATOA VILLA, AND WHAT OBSERVANT
CREATURES FOSSILS ARE 53

CHAPTER VII.

CONCERNING PEOPLE'S PASTS, AND THE SEPARATION OF THE SHEEP
FROM THE GOATS. OF YET ANOTHER MAJOR, AND HOW HE GOSSIPPED
A