Much Darker Days
By Andrew Lang
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”
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Much Darker Days - Andrew Lang
MUCH DARKER DAYS
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Andrew Lang
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER I.—The Curse (Registered).
CHAPTER II.—A Villain’s By-Blow.
CHAPTER III.—Mes Gages! Mes Gages!
CHAPTER IV.—As A Hatter!
CHAPTER V.—The White Groom.
CHAPTER VI.—Hard As Nails.
CHAPTER VII.—Rescue And Retire!
CHAPTER VIII.—Local Colour.
CHAPTER IX.—Saved! Saved!
CHAPTER X.—Not Too Mad, But Just Mad Enough.: IT was out! She knew!
CHAPTER XI.—A Terrible Temptation.
CHAPTER XII.—Judge Juggins.
CHAPTER XIII.—Cleared Up. (From The ‘Green Park Gazette.’)
Much Darker Days
By
Andrew Lang
Much Darker Days
Published by Dossier Press
New York City, NY
First published circa 1912
Copyright © Dossier Press, 2015
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PREFACE
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A BELIEF THAT MODERN CHRISTMAS fiction is too cheerful in tone, too artistic in construction, and too original in motive, has inspired the author of this tale of middle-class life. He trusts that he has escaped, at least, the errors he deplores, and has set an example of a more seasonable and sensational style of narrative.
CHAPTER I.—THE CURSE (REGISTERED).
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WHEN THIS STORY OF MY life, or of such parts of it as are not deemed wholly unfit for publication, is read (and, no doubt, a public which devoured ‘Scrawled Black’ will stand almost anything), it will be found that I have sometimes acted without prim cautiousness—that I have, in fact, wallowed in crime. Stillicide and Mayhem I (rare old crimes!) are child’s play to me, who have been an ‘accessory after the fact!’ In excuse, I can but plead two things-the excellence of the opportunity to do so, and the weakness of the resistance which my victim offered.
If you cannot allow for these, throw the book out of the railway-carriage window! You have paid your money, and to the verdict of your pale morality or absurd sense of art in fiction I am therefore absolutely indifferent. You are too angelic for me; I am too fiendish for you. Let us agree to differ. I say nothing about my boyhood. Twenty-five years ago a poor boy-but no matter. I was that boy! I hurry on to the soaring period of manhood, ‘when the strength, the nerve, the intellect is or should be at its height,’ or are or should be at their height, if you must have grammar in a Christmas Annual. My nerve was at its height: I was thirty.
Yet, what was I then? A miserable moonstruck mortal, duly entitled to write M.D. (of Tarrytown College, Alaska) after my name—for the title of Doctor is useful in the profession—but with no other source of enjoyment or emotional recreation in a cold, casual world. Often and often have I written M.D. after my name, till the glowing pleasure palled, and I have sunk back asking, ‘Has life, then, no more than this to offer?’
Bear with me if I write like this for ever so