PROHACK
MISCELLANEOUS
THEIR UNITED STATE
PARIS NIGHTS
OUR WOMEN
THE LOG OF THE "VELSA"
MEDITERRANEAN SCENES
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(In Collaboration with EDEN PHILLPOTTS)
THE SINEWS OF WAR: A ROMANCE
THE STATUE: A ROMANCE
(In Collaboration with EDWARD KNOBLOCK)
MILESTONES
LONDON LIFE
THE CARD
A STORY OF ADVENTURE
IN THE FIVE TOWNS
BY
ARNOLD BENNETT
_First Published (Crown 8vo), February 23rd, 1911_
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS
I. THE DANCE 7
II. THE WIDOW HULLINS'S HOUSE 27
III. THE PANTECHNICON 48
IV. WRECKING OF A LIFE 71
V. THE MERCANTILE MARINE 89
VI. HIS BURGLARY 112
VII. THE RESCUER OF DAMES 132
VIII. RAISING A WIGWAM 153
IX. THE GREAT NEWSPAPER WAR 177
X. HIS INFAMY 196
XI. IN THE ALPS 218
XII. THE SUPREME HONOUR 240
THE CARD
CHAPTER I
THE DANCE
I
Edward Henry Machin first saw the smoke on the 27th May 1867, in
Brougham Street, Bursley, the most ancient of the Five Towns. Brougham
Street runs down from St Luke's Square straight into the Shropshire
Union Canal, land consists partly of buildings known as "potbanks"
(until they come to be sold by auction, when auctioneers describe them
as "extensive earthenware manufactories") and partly of cottages whose
highest rent is four-and-six a week.
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