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Tono-Bungay — H. G. Wells
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Tono-Bungay
by H. G. Wells · 1909
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1. I Write That Much and Look at It, and Wonder Whether, After All, This
2. There Came a Time When I Realised That Bladesover House Was Not All It
3. I Hated Teatime in the Housekeeper's Room More Than Anything Else at
4. It Is a Little Difficult to Explain Why I Did Not Come to Do What Was
5. The School I Went to Was the Sort of School the Bladesover System
6. And Then When I Had Newly Passed My Fourteenth Birthday, Came My Tragic
7. Now I Sit Down to Write My Story and Tell Over Again Things in Their
8. The Powers of Justice in Bladesover Made an Extraordinary Mess of My
9. When I Was Thus Banished From Bladesover House, as It Was Then Thought
10. But I Didn't Expect to Have the Whole Meeting on Sunday Turned on to
11. I Remember Something, but Not So Much of It as I Should Like to Recall,
12. I Do Not Remember Much of My Journey to Wimblehurst with My Mother
13. As They Talked I Gave My Attention Pretty Exclusively to My Uncle.
14. When I Returned, My Uncle Had in Some Remarkable Way Become Larger and
15. My Mother Died Suddenly and, It Was Thought by Lady Drew,
16. That Is the Last I Shall Tell of Bladesover. the Dropscene Falls on
17. So Far as I Can Remember Now, Except for That One Emotional Phase by
18. So I Remember My Uncle in That First Phase, Young, but Already a Little
19. We Were Torn Apart by a Financial Accident to My Uncle of Which I Did
20. I Was Left, I Say, as Part of the Lock, Stock, and Barrel, at
21. Matriculation Kept Me for Four Full Days and Then Came an Afternoon to
22. It Pleased My Uncle Extremely to Find I Had Never Seen London Before.
23. After I Left My Uncle That Evening I Gave Way to a Feeling of Profound
24. I Had Come to London as a Scholar. I Had Taken the Vincent Bradley
25. How Well I Remember the First Morning, a Bright Sunday Morning in Early
26. Ewart, as the Embodiment of Talk, Was Certainly a Leading Factor in My
27. The Affair Was Immensely Serious and Commanding to Me. I Don't Remember
28. Well, You Begin to Understand My Breakdown Now, I Have Been Copious
29. Throughout My Student Days I Had Not Seen My Uncle. I Refrained From
30. I Seem to Remember Very Quick Changes of Mind After That Lunch. the
31. I Didn't Succumb Without a Struggle to My Uncle's Allurements. Indeed,
32. Ewart as a Moral Influence Was Unsatisfactory. I Had Made Up My Mind to
33. It Came to Me in the Small Hours That the Real Moral Touchstone for
34. At Last I Went to the Address My Uncle Had Given Me in Gower Street,
35. So I Made My Peace with My Uncle, and We Set Out Upon This Bright
36. As I Look Back at Them Now, Those Energetic Years Seem All Compacted to
37. As I Look Back on Those Days in Which We Built Up the Great Tono-Bungay
38. Well, These General Explanations Will Enable the Reader to Understand
39. The Next Day I Did an Unexampled Thing. I Sent a Telegram to My Uncle,
40. I Forget How Many Days Intervened Between That Last Breaking Off of Our
41. Who Can Tell the Story of the Slow Estrangement of Two Married People,
42. The End of Our Intolerable Situation Came Suddenly and Unexpectedly,
43. I Came Back After a Week's Absence to My Home Again-A Changed Man. I
44. Then Presently We Resumed Our Monstrous, Momentous Dialogue. I Can't
45. The Perplexing Thing About Life Is the Irresolvable Complexity of
46. So I Parted From Marion at an Extremity of Perturbation and Regret, and
47. But Before I Finish This Chapter and Book Altogether and Go on with the
48. It Illustrates the Romantic Element in Modern Commerce That My Uncle
49. When I Think of My Uncle Near the Days of His Great Boom and in
50. I Pass the Hardingham Ever and Again and Glance Aside Through the Great
51. All Sorts of Things Came to the Hardingham and Offered Themselves to My
52. You Need One Twenty-Three Pill. Not a Drug but a Live American Remedy. Contents.
53. The Best Pill in the World for an Irregular Liver
54. There Comes Back, Too, Among These Hardingham Memories, an Impression
55. So Far My History of My Aunt and Uncle Has Dealt Chiefly with His
56. I Look Into the Jumbled Stores of the Middle Distance of Memory, and
57. A Few Such Pictures of Those Early Days at Beckenham Stand Out, and
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59. So It Was We Recognised Our New Needs as Fresh Invaders of the Upper
60. For Me, at Least, It Marked an Epoch in My Uncle's Career When I Learnt
61. It Seems to Me Now but a Step From the Buying of Lady Grove to the
62. People Say That My Uncle Lost His Head at the Crest of His Fortunes,
63. My Uncle Was Not Altogether Swallowed Up in Business and Ambition. He
64. And While I Neglected the Development of My Uncle's Finances-And My
65. For Nearly All the Time That My Uncle Was Incubating and Hatching Crest
66. I Had Gone Far Beyond That Initial Stage; I Had Had Two Smashes and a
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68. All My Later Work in Aeronautics Is Associated in My Memory with the
69. But My Story Has Made a Jump From June to October, and During That Time
70. After That the Spirit of Our Relations Changed. the Old Ease Had Gone.
71. But I Was Only Beginning to Gauge the Unaccountable Elements in
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73. I Had a Ridiculous Persuasion That I Was "Saving the Situation."
74. That Expedition to Mordet Island Stands Apart From All the Rest of My
75. All These African Memories Stand by Themselves. It Was for Me an
76. Sooner or Later the Ridiculous Embargo That Now Lies Upon All the Coast
77. A Day or So After We Had Got to Work Upon the Quap I Found Myself So
78. We Were None Too Soon. People Had Been Reconnoitring Us, the Telegraph
79. My Return Home to Lady Grove Was a Very Different Thing From What I Had
80. I Was Roused From Such Thoughts by the Sound of Footsteps Behind Me.
81. That Memory of My Uncle at the Gate Is Very Clear and Full. I Am Able
82. The Incidents of Our Flight in Lord Roberts β Do Not Arrange Themselves
83. But if I Find It Hard to Tell the Story of Our Long Flight Through the
84. And Now My Story Converges on What, in That Queer Corner of Refuge Out
85. It Was Dark Night When I Left His Deathbed and Went Back to My Own Inn
86. Last Belated Figure in That Grouping Round My Uncle's Deathbed Is My
87. When I Came Back I Found That My Share in the Escape and Death of My
88. Love, Like Everything Else in This Immense Process of Social
89. I Asked Her to Marry Me Once Again.
90. That Should Have Been the Last I Saw of Her, but, Indeed, I Was
91. I Have Tried Throughout All This Story to Tell Things as They Happened
92. Concurrently with Writing the Last Chapter of This Book I Have Been
93. This Is the Note I Have Tried to Emphasise, the Note That Sounds Clear
94. It Was Morning and Day Before I Returned with the Four Sick and
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