The Incredible Honeymoon

The Incredible Honeymoon

My friend the tinker has had, perhaps, more than his share of adventures, but then his is the temperament that shoots, like a willing needle, to the great magnet of melodrama. The temperamental needle of Edward Basingstoke followed the magnet of romance. In a gayer, if less comfortable, age he might have been a knight-errant, or, at least, the sympathetic squire of a knight-errant. Had he been born in the days when most people stayed at home and minded their own business he would have insisted on going out and minding other people's. Living in the days of aeroplanes, motors, telegraphy, and cinematographs, in a world noisy with the nonsense of politics and the press, he told himself that the ideal life was the life of the farmer who plowed and sowed and reaped, tended his beasts and filled his barns, and went home from his clean, quiet work to the open hearth whence the wood smoke curled up to heaven like the smoke of an altar. Destiny, in deep perversity, was making an engineer of him. He dreamed his pastoral dreams in the deafening clangor of the shops at Crewe, but not ten thousand hammers could beat out of his brain the faith that life was reallylittle as one might suppose it, just looking at it from Crewefull of the most beautiful and delicate[4] possibilities, and that, somehow or other, people got from life what they chose to take. While he was making up his mind what he should take, he went on learning his trade. And Destiny seemed determined that he should learn nothing else. What we call Destiny is really Chanceand so far from being immutable, she is the veriest flirt and weathercock. She changed her mind about Edwardor perhaps Death, who is stronger than she, insisted and prevailed. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 41354
Author: Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Release Date: Nov 12, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English