Algernon Blackwood
The Collected Novels of Algernon Blackwood (11 Titles in One Edition)
Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air…
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-0101-3
Table of Contents
A Prisoner in Fairyland: Sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul
The Bright Messenger; Sequel to Julius LeVallon
Jimbo: A Fantasy
CHAPTER II MISS LAKE COMES—AND GOES
CHAPTER IV ON THE EDGE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS
CHAPTER V INTO THE EMPTY HOUSE
CHAPTER VI HIS COMPANION IN PRISON
CHAPTER VII THE SPELL OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT MEMORIES
CHAPTER IX THE MEANS OF ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIII PLEASURES OF FLIGHT
CHAPTER XV THE CALL OF THE BODY
CHAPTER I
"RABBITS"
Jimbo's governess ought to have known better—but she didn't. If she had, Jimbo would never have met with the adventures that subsequently came to him. Thus, in a roundabout sort of way, the child ought to have been thankful to the governess; and perhaps, in a roundabout sort of way, he was. But that comes at the far end of the story, and is doubtful at best; and in the meanwhile the child had gone through his suffering, and the governess had in some measure expiated her fault; so that at this stage it is only necessary to note that the whole business began because the Empty House happened to be really an Empty House—not the one Jimbo's family lived in, but another of which more will be known in due course.
Jimbo's father was a retired Colonel, who had married late in life, and now lived all the year round in the country; and Jimbo was the youngest child but one. The Colonel, lean in body as he was sincere in mind, an excellent soldier but a poor diplomatist, loved dogs, horses, guns and riding-whips. He also really understood them. His neighbours, had they been asked, would have called him hard-headed, and so far as a soft-hearted man may deserve the title, he probably was. He rode two horses a day to hounds with the best of them, and the stiffer the country the better he liked it. Besides his guns, dogs and horses, he was also very fond of his children. It was his hobby that he understood them far better