In the Days of the Comet
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Century Subjects: Science fiction, English English fiction Comets Utopias Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure Fiction / Political Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic Notes: This is a black ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Century Subjects: Science fiction, English English fiction Comets Utopias Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction / Adventure Fiction / Political Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER THE FOURTH War �1 From that moment when I insulted old Mrs. Verrall I became representative, I was a man who stood for all the disinherited of the world. I had no hope of pride or pleasure left in me, I was raging rebellion against God and mankind. There were no more vague intentions swaying me this way and that; I was perfectly clear now upon what I meant to do. I would make my protest and die. I would make my protest and die. I was going to kill Nettie -- Nettie who had smiled and promised and given herself to another, and who stood now for all the conceivable delight- fulnesses, the lost imaginations of the youthful heart, the unattainable joys in life; and Verrall who stood for all who profited by the incurable injustice of our social order. I would kill them both. And that being done I would blow my brains out and see what vengeance followed my blank refusal to live. So indeed I was resolved. I raged monstrously. And above me, abolishing the stars, triumphant over the yellow waning moon that followed it below, the giant meteor towered up towards the zenith. "Let me only kill!" I cried. "Let me only kill!" So I shouted in my frenzy. I was in a fever that defied hunger and fatigue; for a long time I had prowled over the heath towards Low- chester talking to myself, and now that night had fully come I w...
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