Headlong Hall

By Peacock, Thomas Love

Book Id: WPLBN0000624347
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Headlong Hall
Author:	Peacock, Thomas Love
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Mail. The AMBIGUOUS light of a December morning, peeping through the windows of the Holyhead mail, dispelled the soft visions of the four insides, who had slept, or seemed to sleep, through the first seventy miles of the road, with as much comfort as may be supposed consistent with the jolting of the vehicle, and an occasional admonition to remember the coachman, thundered through the open door, accompanied by the gentle breath of Boreas, into the ears of the drowsy traveller. A lively remark, that the day was none of the finest, having elicited a repartee of quite the contrary, the various knotty points of meteorology, which usually form the exordium of an English conversation, were successively discussed and exhausted; and, the ice being thus broken, the colloquy rambled to other topics, in the course of which it appeared, to the surprise of every one, that all four, though perfect strangers to each other, were actually bound to the same point, namely, Headlong Hall, the seat of the ancient and honourable family of the Headlongs, of the vale of Llanberris, in Caernarvonshire.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Headlong Hall, 1 -- Thomas Love Peacock, 1 -- Chapter I. The Mail, 1 -- Chapter II. The Squire ?The Breakfast, 3 -- Chapter III. The Arrivals, 6 -- Chapter IV. The Grounds, 8 -- Chapter V. The Dinner, 10 -- Chapter VI. The Evening, 19 -- Chapter VII. The Walk, 23 -- Chapter VIII. The Tower, 27 -- Chapter IX. The Sexton, 29 -- Chapter X. The Skull, 31 -- Chapter XI. The Anniversary, 33 -- Chapter XII. The Lecture, 35 -- Chapter XIII. The Ball, 37 -- Chapter XIV. The Proposals, 44 -- Chapter XV. The Conclusion, 49