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Mr. Standfast
by John Buchan
- Pages
- about 465
- Category
- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 8.5 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made
in this narrative, are recounted in The Thirty-Nine Steps and
Greenmantle.
PART I
CHAPTER I The Wicket-Gate
CHAPTER II “The Village Named Morality”
CHAPTER III The Reflections of a Cured Dyspeptic
CHAPTER IV Andrew Amos
CHAPTER V Various Doings in the West
CHAPTER VI The Skirts of the Coolin
CHAPTER VII I Hear of the Wild Birds
CHAPTER VIII The Adventures of a Bagman
CHAPTER IX I Take the Wings of a Dove
CHAPTER X The Advantages of an Air Raid
CHAPTER XI The Valley of Humiliation
PART II
CHAPTER XII I Become a Combatant Once More
CHAPTER XIII The Adventure of the Picardy Château
CHAPTER XIV Mr Blenkiron Discourses on Love and War
CHAPTER XV St Anton
CHAPTER XVI I Lie on a Hard Bed
CHAPTER XVII The Col of the Swallows
CHAPTER XVIII The Underground Railway
CHAPTER XIX The Cage of the Wild Birds
CHAPTER XX The Storm Breaks in the West
CHAPTER XXI How an Exile Returned to His Own People
CHAPTER XXII The Summons Comes for Mr Standfast
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a
first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the
course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping
over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for
the night. In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second
I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage
calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a
mighty appetite and a quiet mind.
As we slipped up the Thames valley on the smooth Great Western line I
had reflected ruefully on the thorns in the path of duty. For more than
a year I had never been out of khaki, except the months I spent in
hospital.
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