Upton Sinclair
Love's Pilgrimage
A Novel
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066214463
Table of Contents
BOOK III. THE VICTIM HESITATES
They had opened a wooden box which lay beside them.
BOOK IV. THE VICTIM APPROACHES
BOOK VI. THE CORDS ARE TIGHTENED
BOOK VII. THE CAPTURE IS COMPLETED
BOOK XIII. THE MASTERS OF THE SNARE
BOOK XVI. THE BREAK FOR FREEDOM
PART I. Loves Entanglement
BOOK I. THE VICTIM
It was in a little woodland glen, with a streamlet tumbling through it. She sat with her back to a snowy birch-tree, gazing into the eddies of a pool below; and he lay beside her, upon the soft, mossy ground, reading out of a book of poems. Images of joy were passing before them; and there came four lines with a picture—
“Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks,
Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met,
Are at their savory dinner set.”
“Ah!” said she. “I always loved that. Let us be Corydon and Thyrsis!”
He smiled. “They were both of them men,” he said.
“Let us change it,” she responded—“just between ourselves!”
“Very well—Corydon!” said he.
Then, after a moment’s thought, she added, “But we didn’t have the cottage.”
“No,” said he—“nor even the dinner!”
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