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THE FLIGHT OF THE SHADOW
By George MacDonald
CONTENTS.
I. MRS. DAY BEGINS THE STORY
II. MISS MARTHA MOON
III. MY UNCLE
IV. MY UNCLE'S ROOM, AND MY UNCLE IN IT
V. MY FIRST SECRET
VI. I LOSE MYSELF
VII. THE MIRROR
VIII. THANATOS AND ZOE
IX. THE GARDEN
X. ONCE MORE A SECRET
XI. THE MOLE BURROWS
XII. A LETTER
XIII. OLD LOVE AND NEW
XIV. MOTHER AND UNCLE
XV. THE TIME BETWEEN
XVI. FAULT AND NO FAULT
XVII. THE SUMMONS
XVIII. JOHN SEES SOMETHING
XIX. JOHN IS TAKEN ILL
XX. A STRANGE VISIT
XXI. A FOILED ATTEMPT
XXII. JOHN RECALLS AND REMEMBERS
XXIII. LETTER AND ANSWER
XXIV. HAND TO HAND
XXV. A VERY STRANGE THING
XXVI. THE EVIL DRAWS NIGHER
XXVII. AN ENCOUNTER
XXVIII. ANOTHER VISION
XXIX. MOTHER AND SON
XXX. ONCE MORE, AND YET AGAIN
XXXI. MY UNCLE COMES HOME
XXXII. TWICE TWO IS ONE
XXXIII. HALF ONE IS ONE
XXXIV. THE STORY OF MY TWIN UNCLES
XXXV. UNCLE EDMUND'S APPENDIX
XXXVI. THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME
CHAPTER I.
MRS. DAY BEGINS THE STORY.
I am old, else, I think, I should not have the courage to tell the story I am going to tell. All those concerned in it about whose feelings I am careful, are gone where, thank God, there are no secrets! If they know what I am doing, I know they do not mind. If they were alive to read as I record, they might perhaps now and again look a little paler and wish the leaf turned, but to see the things set down would not make them unhappy: they do not love secrecy. Half the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not. I would that not God only but all good men and women might see me through and through. They would not be pleased with everything th