Subject for October, 2016

Chapter 25 – Looking Eastward

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

“It’s just a week,” I said, three days later, to Arthur, “since we heard of Lady Muriel’s engagement. I think I ought to call, at any rate, and o...

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Chapter 24 – The Frog’s Birthday-Treat

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

And so it came to pass that, just a week after the day when my Fairy-friends first appeared as Children, I found myself taking a farewell-stroll through the wood, in the hope o...

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Chapter 23 – An Outlandish Watch

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

As I entered the little town, I came upon two of the fishermen’s wives interchanging that last word “which never was the last”: and it occurred to me, as an e...

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Chapter 22 – Crossing the Line

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

“Let us lapse back again,” said Lady Muriel. “Take another cup of tea? I hope that’s sound common sense?” “And all that strange adventure,...

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Chapter 21 – Through the Ivory Door

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

“I don’t know,” said Sylvie. “Hush! I must think. I could go to him, by myself, well enough. But I want you to come too.” “Let me go wi...

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Chapter 20 – Light Come, Light Go

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

Lady Muriel’s smile of welcome could not quite conceal the look of surprise with which she regarded my new companions. I presented them in due form. “This is Sylv...

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Chapter 19 – How to Make a Philzz

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

The week passed without any further communication with the ‘Hall,’ as Arthur was evidently fearful that we might ‘wear out our welcome’; but when, on Su...

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Chapter 18 – Queer Street, Number Forty

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

Lady Muriel was the speaker. And, for the moment, that was the only fact I could clearly realise. But how she came to be there and how I came to be there–and how the gl...

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Chapter 17 – The Three Badgers

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

Still more dreamily I found myself following this imperious voice into a room where the Earl, his daughter, and Arthur, were seated. “So you’re come at last!”...

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Chapter 16 – A Changed Crocodile

Subject: Sylvie and Bruno

The Marvellous–the Mysterious–had quite passed out of my life for the moment: and the Common-place reigned supreme. I turned in the direction of the Earl’s h...

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