The Sea Lady. Herbert George Wells

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      Published by Good Press, 2020

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Table of Contents

       THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY

       I

       II

       SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       THE EPISODE OF THE VARIOUS JOURNALISTS

       I

       II

       III

       THE QUALITY OF PARKER

       I

       II

       III

       THE ABSENCE AND RETURN OF MR. HARRY CHATTERIS

       I

       II

       AN ARISTOCRATIC BRITISHER

       A PURE AMERICAN GIRL

       INTERVIEW WITH THE VICTIM

       HEARTLESS LEVITY

       III

       SYMPTOMATIC

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       THE CRISIS

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       MOONSHINE TRIUMPHANT

       I

       II

       III

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      CHAPTER THE FIRST

THE COMING OF THE SEA LADY

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      Such previous landings of mermaids as have left a record, have all a flavour of doubt. Even the very circumstantial account of that Bruges Sea Lady, who was so clever at fancy work, gives occasion to the sceptic. I must confess that I was absolutely incredulous of such things until a year ago. But now, face to face with indisputable facts in my own immediate neighbourhood, and with my own second cousin Melville (of Seaton Carew) as the chief witness to the story, I see these old legends in a very different light. Yet so ​many people concerned themselves with the hushing up of this affair, that, but for my sedulous enquiries, I am certain it would have become as doubtful as those older legends in a couple of score of years. Even now to many minds——

      The difficulties in the way of the hushing-up process were no doubt exceptionally great in this case, and that they did contrive to do so much, seems to show just how strong are the motives for secrecy in all such cases. There is certainly no remoteness СКАЧАТЬ