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The Lee Shore By: Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) |
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by R. MACAULAY 1912 TO P.R.
That division, the division of those who have and those who have not,
runs so deep as almost to run to the bottom.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I
A Hereditary Bequest CHAPTER II
The Choice of a Career CHAPTER III
The Hopes CHAPTER IV
The Complete Shopper CHAPTER V
The Splendid Morning CHAPTER VI
Hilary, Peggy, and the Boarders CHAPTER VII
Diana, Actæon, and Lord Evelyn CHAPTER VIII
Peter Understands CHAPTER IX
The Fat in the Fire CHAPTER X
The Loss of a Profession CHAPTER XI
The Loss of an Idea CHAPTER XII
The Loss of a Goblet and Other Things CHAPTER XIII
The Loss of the Single State CHAPTER XIV
Peter, Rhoda, and Lucy CHAPTER XV
The Loss of a Wife CHAPTER XVI
A Long Way CHAPTER XVII
Mischances in the Rain CHAPTER XVIII
The Breaking Point CHAPTER XIX
The New Life CHAPTER XX
The Last Loss CHAPTER XXI
On the Shore
THE LEE SHORE
CHAPTER I A HEREDITARY BEQUEST
During the first week of Peter Margerison's first term at school,
Urquhart suddenly stepped, a radiant figure on the heroic scale, out of
the kaleidoscopic maze of bemusing lights and colours that was Peter's
vision of his new life. Peter, seeing Urquhart in authority on the football field, asked, "Who is
it?" and was told, "Urquhart, of course," with the implication "Who else
could it be?" "Oh," Peter said, and blushed. Then he was told, "Standing right in
Urquhart's way like that! Urquhart doesn't want to be stared at by all
the silly little kids in the lower fourth." But Urquhart was, as a
matter of fact, probably used to it. So that was Urquhart. Peter Margerison hugged secretly his two pieces of
knowledge; so secret they were, and so enormous, that he swelled visibly
with them; there seemed some danger that they might even burst him. That
great man was Urquhart. Urquhart was that great man. Put so, the two
pieces of knowledge may seem to have a certain similarity; there was in
effect a delicate discrimination between them. If not wholly distinct one
from the other, they were anyhow two separate aspects of the same
startling and rather magnificent fact. Then there was another aspect: did Urquhart know that he, Margerison, was
in fact Margerison? He showed no sign of such knowledge; but then it was
naturally not part of his business to concern himself with silly little
kids in the lower fourth. Peter never expected it. But a few days after that, Peter came into the lavatories and
found Urquhart there, and Urquhart looked round and said, "I say,
you Margerison. Just cut down to the field and bring my cap. You'll find
it by the far goal, Smithson's ground. You can bring it to the lavatories
and hang it on my peg. Cut along quick, or you'll be late." Peter cut along quick, and found the velvet tasselled thing and brought
it and hung it up with the care due to a thing so precious as a fifteen
cap. The school bell had clanged while he was down on the field, and he
was late and had lines. That didn't matter. The thing that had emerged
was, Urquhart knew he was Margerison. After that, Urquhart did not have occasion to honour Margerison with his
notice for some weeks. It was, of course, a disaster of Peter's that
brought them into personal relations. Throughout his life, Peter's
relations were apt to be based on some misfortune or other; he always had
such bad luck. Vainly on Litany Sundays he put up his petition to be
delivered "from lightning and tempest, from plague, pestilence, and
famine, from battle and murder, and from sudden death." Disasters seemed
to crowd the roads on which he walked; so frequent were they and so
tragic that life could scarcely be lived in sober earnest; it was, for
Peter the comedian, a tragi comic farce. Circumstances provided the
tragedy, and temperament the farce. Anyhow, one day Peter tumbled on to the point of his right shoulder and
lay on his face, his arm crooked curiously at his side, remarking that he
didn't think he was hurt, only his arm felt funny and he didn't think he
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