JACK LONDON: All 22 Novels in One Illustrated Edition. Джек Лондон
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       III. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       IV. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       V. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       VI. From the Same to the Same

       VII. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       VIII. From the Same to the Same

       IX. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       X. From the Same to the Same

       XI. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XII. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XIII. From the Same to the Same

       XIV. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

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       XVI. From the Same to the Same

       XVII. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XVIII. From the Same to the Same

       XIX. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XX. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XXI. From the Same to the Same

       XXII. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XXIII. From the Same to the Same

       XXIV. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XXV. From the Same to the Same

       XXVI. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XXVII. From the Same to the Same

       XXVIII. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XXIX. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XXX. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XXXI. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XXXII. From the Same to the Same

       XXXIII. From the Same to the Same

       XXXIV. From the Same to the Same

       XXXV. From the Same to the Same

       XXXVI. From Herbert Wace to Dane Kempton

       XXXVII. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

       XXXVIII. From Hester Stebbins to Herbert Wace

       XXXIX. From Hester Stebbins to Dane Kempton

      "And of naught else than Love would we discourse."

      —Dante, Sonnet II.

      I. From Dane Kempton to Herbert Wace

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      London,

       3 a Queen's Road, Chelsea, S.W.

       August 14, 19—.

      Yesterday I wrote formally, rising to the occasion like the conventional happy father rather than the man who believes in the miracle and lives for it. Yesterday I stinted myself. I took you in my arms, glad of what is and stately with respect for the fulness of your manhood. It is to-day that I let myself leap into yours in a passion of joy. I dwell on what has come to pass and inflate myself with pride in your fulfilment, more as a mother would, I think, and she your mother.

      But why did you not write before? After all, the great event was not when you found your offer of marriage accepted, but when you found you had fallen in love. Then was your hour. Then was the time for congratulation, when the call was first sounded and the reveille of Time and About fell upon your soul and the march to another's destiny was begun. It is always more important to love than to be loved. I wish it had been vouchsafed me to be by when your spirit of a sudden grew willing to bestow itself without question or let or hope of return, when the self broke up and you grew fain to beat out your strength in praise and service for the woman who was soaring high in the blue wastes. You have known her long, and you must have been hers long, yet no word of her and of your love reached me. It was not kind to be silent.

      Barbara spoke yesterday of your fastidiousness, СКАЧАТЬ