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Of Human Bondage — W. Somerset Maugham
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1. The Day Broke Gray and Dull. the Clouds Hung Heavily, and There Was a
2. It Was a Week Later. Philip Was Sitting on the Floor in the
3. When They Reached the House Mrs. Carey Had Died In-It Was in a Dreary,
4. Philip Parted From Emma with Tears, but the Journey to Blackstable
5. Philip Came Gradually to Know the People He Was to Live with, and by
6. One Day Was Very Like Another at the Vicarage.
7. Sunday Was a Day Crowded with Incident. Mr. Carey Was Accustomed to Say
8. Philip Had Led Always the Solitary Life of an Only Child, and His
9. On the Following Sunday, When the Vicar Was Making His Preparations to
10. The Careys Made Up Their Minds to Send Philip to King's School at
11. Next Morning When the Clanging of a Bell Awoke Philip He Looked Round
12. As Time Went on Philip's Deformity Ceased to Interest. It Was Accepted
13. Two Years Passed, and Philip Was Nearly Twelve. He Was in the First
14. Then a Wave of Religiosity Passed Through the School. Bad Language Was
15. The King's School at Tercanbury, to Which Philip Went When He Was
16. A Year Passed, and When Philip Came to the School the Old Masters Were
17. Philip Passed the Next Two Years with Comfortable Monotony. He Was Not
18. But Philip Could Not Live Long in the Rarefied Air of the Hilltops.
19. At First Philip Had Been Too Grateful for Rose's Friendship to Make Any
20. Philip Was Moved Into the Sixth, but He Hated School Now with All His
21. Mr. Perkins Soon Saw That His Words Had Had No Effect on Philip, and
22. Philip's Uncle Had an Old Friend, Called Miss Wilkinson, Who Lived in
23. Philip Thought Occasionally of the King's School at Tercanbury, and
24. Professor Erlin Gave Philip a Lesson Every Day. He Made Out a List of
25. The Oddest of Philip's Masters Was His Teacher of French. Monsieur
26. Philip Had Spent Three Months in Heidelberg When One Morning the Frau
27. Weeks Had Two Little Rooms at the Back of Frau Erlin's House, and One
28. It Occurred Neither to Hayward Nor to Weeks That the Conversations
29. Winter Set in. Weeks Went to Berlin to Attend the Lectures of Paulssen,
30. Philip Was Restless and Dissatisfied. Hayward's Poetic Allusions
31. Hayward, After Saying for a Month That He Was Going South Next Day and
32. Philip Was Surprised When He Saw His Uncle and Aunt. He Had Never
33. Philip Could Not Get Miss Wilkinson's Story Out of His Head. It Was
34. Next Day After Dinner They Took Their Rugs and Cushions to the
35. Philip Woke Early Next Morning. His Sleep Had Been Restless; but When
36. A Few Days Later Philip Went to London. the Curate Had Recommended
37. At First the Novelty of the Work Kept Philip Interested. Mr. Carter
38. XXXVIII
39. The Vicar of Blackstable Would Have Nothing to Do with the Scheme Which
40. A Few Days Later Mrs. Carey Went to the Station to See Philip Off. She
41. Philip Walked Down the Boulevard Du Montparnasse. It Was Not at All
42. There Was a General Disturbance. Flanagan and Two or Three More Went on
43. On Tuesdays and Fridays Masters Spent the Morning at Amitrano's,
44. But Notwithstanding When Miss Price on the Following Sunday Offered to
45. Philip Soon Realised That the Spirit Which Informed His Friends Was
46. Philip Did Not Find Living in Paris as Cheap as He Had Been Led to
47. In March There Was All the Excitement of Sending in to the Salon.
48. When Philip Returned to Amitrano's He Found That Fanny Price Was No
49. The Story Which Philip Made Out in One Way and Another Was Terrible.
50. Philip Could Not Get the Unhappy Event Out of His Head. What Troubled
51. Two Months Passed.
52. Next Day Philip Arrived at Blackstable. Since the Death of His Mother
53. Taking the Paper with Him Mr. Carey Retired to His Study. Philip
54. The Examination Philip Had Passed Before He Was Articled to a Chartered
55. Philip's Ideas of the Life of Medical Students, Like Those of the
56. He Could Not Get Her Out of His Mind. He Laughed Angrily at His Own
57. Philip Arrived at Victoria Station Nearly Half an Hour Before the Time
58. Philip Woke Early Next Morning, and His First Thought Was of Mildred.
59. Philip Passed the Evening Wretchedly. He Had Told His Landlady That He
60. They Dined in Soho. Philip Was Tremulous with Joy. It Was Not One of
61. He Saw Her Then Every Day. He Began Going to Lunch at the Shop, but
62. Philip Did Not Surrender Himself Willingly to the Passion That Consumed
63. Philip Did Not Pass the Examination in Anatomy at the End of March. He
64. But About Three in the Morning Philip Awoke and Could Not Sleep Again.
65. Hayward's Visit Did Philip a Great Deal of Good. Each Day His Thoughts
66. Philip Worked Well and Easily; He Had a Good Deal to Do, Since He Was
67. Philip Looked Forward to His Return to London with Impatience. During
68. One Morning Philip on Getting Up Felt His Head Swim, and Going Back to
69. One Afternoon, When He Went Back to His Rooms From the Hospital to Wash
70. Philip Expected to Find a Letter From Norah When He Got Back to His
71. Philip, in Return for Griffiths' Confidences, Had Told Him the Details
72. For the Next Three Months Philip Went Every Day to See Mildred. He Took
73. Three Weeks Later Philip Saw Mildred and Her Baby Off to Brighton. She
74. The Following Saturday Mildred Returned, and That Evening Philip Kept
75. Next Day Philip Was in a Good Temper. He Was Very Anxious Not to Bore
76. Next Day, in the Afternoon, Philip Sat in His Room and Wondered Whether
77. After Lunching in the Basement of the Medical School Philip Went Back
78. LXXVIII
79. Philip Went Up to London a Couple of Days Before the Session Began in
80. For the Next Three Months Philip Worked on Subjects Which Were New to
81. At the Beginning of the Winter Session Philip Became an Out-Patients'
82. Towards the End of the Year, When Philip Was Bringing to a Close His
83. LXXXIII
84. At the New Year Philip Became Dresser in the Surgical Out-Patients'
85. About a Fortnight After This Philip, Going Home One Evening After His
86. In the Spring Philip, Having Finished His Dressing in the Out-Patients'
87. LXXXVII
88. LXXXVIII
89. The Conversation Between Philip and Athelny Was Broken Into by a
90. When He Left the Athelnys' Philip Walked Down Chancery Lane and Along
91. Next Day He Got Up Early to Make the Room Ready for Mildred. He Told
92. The Following Day Was Tuesday. Philip as Usual Hurried Through His
93. Next Morning Mildred Was Sulky and Taciturn. She Remained in Her Room
94. Philip Asked Mr. Jacobs, the Assistant-Surgeon for Whom He Had Dressed,
95. When They Returned to London Philip Began His Dressing in the Surgical
96. The Climax Came Two or Three Weeks Later. Mildred Was Driven by
97. Philip Awoke with a Start Next Morning, Conscious That It Was Late, and
98. And Now It Happened That the Fortunes of Philip Carey, of No
99. Philip Began to Pawn His Clothes. He Reduced His Expenses by Eating
100. Saturday. It Was the Day on Which He Had Promised to Pay His Landlady.
101. When Philip Rang a Head Was Put Out of the Window, and in a Minute He
102. Athelny Told Philip That He Could Easily Get Him Something to Do in the
103. Mrs. Athelny Lent Philip Money to Pay His Landlady Enough of Her Bill
104. The Social Evenings Took Place on Alternate Mondays. There Was One at
105. The Wages Were Paid Once a Month by the Secretary. on Pay-Day Each
106. Philip Avoided the Places He Had Known in Happier Times. the Little
107. Mr. Sampson, the Buyer, Took a Fancy to Philip. Mr. Sampson Was Very
108. The Winter Passed. Now and Then Philip Went to the Hospital, Slinking
109. The Autumn Passed Into Winter. Philip Had Left His Address with Mrs.
110. William Street, Fitzroy Square.
111. Christmas That Year Falling on Thursday, the Shop Was to Close for Four
112. Next Day Philip Began Work Again, but the End Which He Expected Within
113. Josiah Graves in His Masterful Way Made Arrangements, Becoming but
114. At the Beginning of the Last Week in August Philip Entered Upon His
115. The Three Weeks Which the Appointment Lasted Drew to an End. Philip Had
116. Philip Spent the Few Weeks That Remained Before the Beginning of the
117. During His Last Year at St. Luke's Philip Had to Work Hard. He Was
118. Philip Had Written to Athelny to Tell Him That He Was Doing a Locum in
119. It Was Late in the Evening When Philip Arrived at Ferne. It Was Mrs.
120. Philip Had Not a Basket of His Own, but Sat with Sally. Jane Thought It
121. Philip Slept Like a Log and Awoke with a Start to Find Harold Tickling
122. When the Hops Were Picked, Philip with the News in His Pocket That He
123. He Had Arranged to Meet Sally on Saturday in the National Gallery. She
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