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I. THE MOTIVE 11
II. NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY OF GINGER STOTT 22
III. THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF GINGER STOTT 58
PART TWO
THE CHILDHOOD OF THE WONDER
IV. THE MANNER OF HIS BIRTH 71
V. HIS DEPARTURE FROM STOKE-UNDERHILL 92
VI. HIS FATHER'S DESERTION 107
VII. HIS DEBT TO HENRY CHALLIS 118
VIII. HIS FIRST VISIT TO CHALLIS COURT 143
INTERLUDE 149
THE WONDER AMONG BOOKS
IX. HIS PASSAGE THROUGH THE PRISON OF KNOWLEDGE 155
X. HIS PASTORS AND MASTERS 179
XI. HIS EXAMINATION 193
XII. HIS INTERVIEW WITH HERR GROSSMANN 217
XIII. FUGITIVE 229
PART THREE
MY ASSOCIATION WITH THE WONDER
XIV. HOW I WENT TO PYM TO WRITE A BOOK 235
XV. THE INCIPIENCE OF MY SUBJECTION TO THE WONDER 247
XVI. THE PROGRESS AND RELAXATION OF MY SUBJECTION 267
XVII. RELEASE 284
XVIII. IMPLICATIONS 299
XIX. EPILOGUE: THE USES OF MYSTERY 305
PART ONE
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
PART ONE
MY EARLY ASSOCIATIONS WITH GINGER STOTT
CHAPTER I
THE MOTIVE
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I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.
Since we had left London, I had been struggling with Baillie's translation of Hegel's "Phenomenology." It was not a book to read among such distracting circumstances as those of a railway journey, but I was eagerly planning a little dissertation of my own at that time, and my work as a journalist gave me little leisure for quiet study.
I looked up when the woman entered my compartment, though I did not notice the name of the station. I caught sight of the baby she was carrying, and turned back to my book. I thought the child was a freak, an abnormality; and such things disgust me.
I returned to the study of my Hegel and r