Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest

· 1881

CHAPTER ONE Birth--My father--Tamerlane--Ben Brain--French 1-9 Protestants--East Anglia--Sorrow and troubles--True peace--A beautiful child--Foreign grave--Mirrors--The Alpine country--Emblems--Slowness of speech--The Jew--Some strange gestures CHAPTER TWO Barracks and lodgings--A camp--The viper--A delicate 10-16 child--Blackberry time--_Meum_ and _tuum_--Hythe--The Golgotha--Daneman's skull--Superhuman stature--Stirring times--The sea-bord CHAPTER THREE Pretty D-----The venerable church--The stricken 17-26 heart--Dormant energies--The small packet--Nerves--The books--A picture--Mountain-like billows--The footprint--Spirit of De Foe--Reasoning powers--Terrors of God--Heads of the dragons--H…

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