The Portal Of Dreams
by Charles Neville Buck
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About this eBook
- Author
- Buck, Charles Neville, 1879-1957
- Title
- The Portal of Dreams
- Credits
- Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 31927
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31927
- Release Date
- April 9, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The PORTAL OF DREAMS
- 2.by CHARLES NEVILLE BUCK — Author of "THE KEY TO YESTERDAY" "THE LIGHTED MATCH" etc. — Illustrated by FRANK SNAPP — NEW YORK W. J. WATT & COMPANY PUBLISHERS — Copyright, 1912 — Published September — "Sit down!" he thundered.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.List of Illustrations
- 5.THE PORTAL OF DREAMS
- 6.CHAPTER I — A VISION UPON A WARNING — A young woman was sitting before a counter, with her back to the street, trying on gloves.
- 7.CHAPTER II — PURSUING A WILL-O'-THE-WISP
- 8.CHAPTER III — I EMBARK ON A FOOL'S ERRAND
- 9.CHAPTER IV — SOME PASSAGES FROM A DIARY
- 10.CHAPTER V — PREMONITIONS BECOME REALITIES
- 11.CHAPTER VI — THE END OF THE "WASTREL"
- 12.CHAPTER VII — IN STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCES.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — NATURE INDULGES IN SATIRE
- 14.CHAPTER IX — A PORTRAIT AND A TEMPLE
- 15.CHAPTER X — I SEEK ORCHIDS
- 16.CHAPTER XI — I FIND MYSELF A DEMI-GOD — "Frances! Frances! Frances!" I declaimed with the deep profundity of a ritual.
- 17.CHAPTER XII — PORT AND STARBOARD LIGHTS
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — ENTER THE INFANTRYMAN
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — THE "ASH-TRASH LADY"
- 20.CHAPTER XV — TWO DISCOVERIES
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — AN INTERVIEW AND A CRISIS — "You are a great traveler, aren't you, Mr. Deprayne?" she suggested when the silence had begun to be oppressive.
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — WE GO TO THE MOUNTAINS.
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — A CHAT WITH A DICTATOR.
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — A VOLLEY FROM THE LAUREL.
- 25.CHAPTER XX — A CAVALCADE FROM THE LAUREL.
- 26.CHAPTER XXI — I GO WALKING AND MEET ENEMIES.
- 27.CHAPTER XXII — I FAIL TO RETURN HOME.
- 28.CHAPTER XXIII — THE OFFER OF PAROLE.
- 29.CHAPTER XXIV — MY DAY IN COURT.
- 30.CHAPTER XXV — BEING LAUGHED AT.
- 31.CHAPTER XXVI — HOW IT ENDED—AND BEGAN.
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