



Produced by Charles Aldarondo.  HTML version by Al Haines.









A Life's Morning


by

George Gissing




CONTENTS

       I  AN UNDERGRADUATE AT LEISURE
      II  BEATRICE REDWING
     III  LYRICAL
      IV  A CONFLICT OF OPINIONS
       V  THE SHADOW OF HOME
      VI  A VISITOR BY EXPRESS
     VII  ON THE LEVELS
    VIII  A STERNER WOOING
      IX  CIRCUMSTANCE
       X  AT THE SWORD'S POINT
      XI  EMILY'S DECISION
     XII  THE FINAL INTERVIEW
    XIII  THE CUTTING OF THE KNOT
     XIV  NEWS AND COMMENTS
      XV  MRS. BAXENDALE'S QUESTS
     XVI  RENUNCIATION
    XVII  THEIR SEVERAL WAYS
   XVIII  A COMPACT
     XIX  THE COMPLETION OF MISCHANCE
      XX  WILFRID THE LEGISLATOR
     XXI  DANGEROUS RELICS
    XXII  HER PATH IN THE SHADOW
   XXIII  HER PATH IN THE LIGHT
    XXIV  THE UNEXPECTED
     XXV  A FAMILY CONCLAVE
    XXVI  MID-DAY




CHAPTER I

AN UNDERGRADUATE AT LEISURE


Wilfrid Athel went down invalided a few days after the beginning of
Trinity term. The event was not unanticipated. At Christmas it had been
clear enough that he was overtaxing himself; his father remarked on the
fact with anxiety, and urged moderation, his own peculiar virtue.
Wilfrid, whose battle with circumstances was all before him, declined to
believe that the body was anything but the very humble servant of the
will. So the body took its revenge.

He had been delicate in childhood, and the stage of hardy naturalism
which interposes itself between tender juvenility and the birth of
