BY MAY SINCLAIR THE BELFRY THE TREE OF HAVEN MARY OLIVIER THE COMBINED MAZE A DEFENCE OF IDEALISM JOURNAL OF IMPRESSIONS IN BELGIUM LIFE AND DEATH OF HARRIETT FREAN THE ROMANTIC ANNE SEVERN AND THE FIELDINGS THE NEW IDEALISM MR. WADDINGTON OF WYCK THE THREE SISTERS THE RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL Lekin бено 7-29-85 31796 A CURE OF SOULS CHAPTER I HE Reverend Canon Clement Purcell Cham TH berlain stood before the looking-glass brushing his hair. A pale vicuna dressing-gown, girdled and tasselled, sheathed him like a monk's frock. The shaven face between the oval yellow-backed twin brushes showed handsome, long and full, not too austerely Roman, redbrown, sleek with health. Young, too, for forty-three; only a few faint parallel lines across the forehead, crow's feet almost invisible about the eyes. Under the rhythmic strokes of the twin brushes the sleek brown hair fitted tight like a cap to the large head. It waved a little at the temples. Through the open window an air smelling of lavender and warm roses blew on him. He enjoyed the rhythm of the brushes, the cut of the stiff bristles through the hair and their scraping on the scalp. Once risen up out of his perfect bed, Canon Chamberlain enjoyed all the processes that prepared him for another I |