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Title: Five Nights

Author: Victoria Cross

Release Date: July 24, 2004 [eBook #13017]

Language: English

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FIVE NIGHTS

A Novel

By

Victoria Cross

1908

By Victoria Cross

Five Nights
Life's Shop Window
Anna Lombard
Six Women
Six Chapters of a Man's Life
The Woman Who Didn't
To-morrow?
Paula
A Girl of the Klondike
The Religion of Evelyn Hastings
Life of my Heart

CONTENTS

PART I

The Gold Night

I THE TAKU INLET
II THE TEA-SHOP
III IN THE WOOD

PART II

The Violet Night

IV AT THE STUDIO
V THE CALL OF THE CUCKOO

PART III

The Black Night

VI IN MAYFAIR
VII FREEDOM

PART IV

The Crimson Night

VIII LOSS
IX IN 'FRISCO
X IN THE SHADOW OF THE VOLCANO
XI THE WAY OF THE GODS

PART V

The White Night

XII THE FLAMES OF LIFE'S FURNACE

FIVE NIGHTS

"The nights have different colours. Some nights are black, the
nights of storm: some are electric blue, some are silver, the
moon-filled nights: some are red under the hot planet Mars or the
fierce harvest moon. Some are white, the white nights of the
Arctic winter: but this was a violet night, a hot, mysterious,
violet night of Midsummer."

_LIFE'S SHOP WINDOW_.

INTRODUCTION

As one looks over any period of one's life, it appears behind one as
a shining maze of brilliant colour with spots in it here and there of
brighter or darker hue. Each spot represents a period of time when our
happiness has glowed brighter or waned; sometimes it is a day, more
often it is a night. Looking back now, over a stretch of my existence
I see many such spots gleaming brightly; they are nights of colour.
The history of many of these is too sacred to be written, but there
are Five Nights, which, though not the dearest to my memory,