"I have
suffered much and idiotically--but I draw a line at this. I shall
kick!"
Golly clapped her hands joyfully. "We will!"
"And we'll chuck him."
"We will."
They were choking with laughter.
"And go and get married in a natural, simple way like anybody else--
and try--to do our duty--to God--to each other--and to our fellow-
beings--and quit this--damned--nonsense--and in-fer-nal idiocy
forever!"
"Amen!"
PUBLISHER'S NOTE.--"In that supreme work of my life, 'The
Christian,'" said the gifted novelist to a reporter in speaking of
his methods, "I had endowed the characters of Golly and John Gale
with such superhuman vitality and absolute reality that--as is well
known in the experience of great writers--they became thinking
beings, and actually criticised my work, and even INTERFERED and
REBELLED to the point of altering my climax and the end!" The
present edition gives that ending, which of course is the only real
one.
THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN LONGBOWE, YEOMAN
BEING A MODERN-ANTIQUE REALISTIC ROMANCE
(COMPILED FROM SEVERAL EMINENT SOURCES)
It seemeth but fair that I, John Longbowe, should set down this
account of such hap and adventure as hath befallen me, without
flourish, vaporing, or cozening of speech, but as becometh one who,
not being a ready writer, goeth straight to the matter in hand in
few words.
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