Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960 / 2008-07-02 00:00:00

EBOOK LYING PROPHETS ***


Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Tiffany Vergon, Eric Casteleijn
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.


LYING PROPHETS
_A NOVEL_
BY EDEN PHILLPOTTS
_Author of "Down Dartmoor Way," "Some Everyday Folks" "The End of a
Life," etc.
"'Tis like this: your man did take plain Nature for God, an' he did talk
fulishness 'bout finding Him in the scent o' flowers, the hum o' bees an'
sichlike. Mayhap Nature's a gude working God for a selfish man but she ed'n
wan for a maid, as you knaws by now. Then your faither--his God do sit
everlastingly alongside hell-mouth, an' do laugh an' girn to see all the
world a walkin' in, same as the beasts walked in the Ark. Theer's another
picksher of a God for 'e; but mark this, gal, they be lying prophets--lying
prophets both!"--Book II., Chapter XI._



BOOK ONE
_ART_


CHAPTER ONE
NEWLYN

Away beyond the village stands a white cottage with the sea lapping at low
cliffs beneath it. Plum and apple orchards slope upward behind this
building, and already, upon the former trees, there trembles a snowy gauze
where blossom buds are breaking. Higher yet, dark plowed fields, with
hedges whereon grow straight elms, cover the undulations of a great hill
even to its windy crest, and below, at the water line, lies Newlyn--a
village of gray stone and blue, with slate roofs now shining silver-bright
under morning sunlight and easterly wind.
Read more


Parts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20