{"product_id":"2940013336117","title":"THE REAL ADVENTURE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE GREAT ILLUSION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I A Point of Departure\u003cbr\u003e   II Beginning an Adventure\u003cbr\u003e  III Frederica's Plan and What Happened to It\u003cbr\u003e   IV Rosalind Stanton Doesn't Disappear\u003cbr\u003e    V The Second Encounter\u003cbr\u003e   VI The Big Horse\u003cbr\u003e  VII How It Struck Portia\u003cbr\u003e VIII Rodney's Experiment\u003cbr\u003e   IX After Breakfast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLOVE AND THE WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I The Princess Cinderella\u003cbr\u003e   II The First Question and an Answer to It\u003cbr\u003e  III Where Did Rose Come In\u003cbr\u003e   IV Long Circuits and Short\u003cbr\u003e    V Rodney Smiled\u003cbr\u003e   VI The Damascus Road\u003cbr\u003e  VII How the Pattern Was Cut\u003cbr\u003e VIII A Birthday\u003cbr\u003e   IX A Defeat\u003cbr\u003e    X The Door That Was to Open\u003cbr\u003e   XI An Illustration\u003cbr\u003e  XII What Harriet Did\u003cbr\u003e XIII Fate Plays a Joke\u003cbr\u003e  XIV The Dam Gives Way\u003cbr\u003e   XV The Only Remedy\u003cbr\u003e  XVI Rose Opens the Door\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WORLD ALONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I The Length of a Thousand Yards\u003cbr\u003e    II The Evening and the Morning Were the First Day\u003cbr\u003e   III Rose Keeps the Path\u003cbr\u003e   IV The Girl With the Bad Voice\u003cbr\u003e    V Mrs. Goldsmith's Taste\u003cbr\u003e   VI A Business Proposition\u003cbr\u003e  VII The End of a Fixed Idea\u003cbr\u003e VIII Success--and a Recognition\u003cbr\u003e   IX The Man and the Director\u003cbr\u003e    X The Voice of the World\u003cbr\u003e   XI The Short Circuit Again\u003cbr\u003e  XII \"I'm All Alone\"\u003cbr\u003e XIII Frederica's Paradox\u003cbr\u003e  XIV The Miry Way\u003cbr\u003e   XV In Flight\u003cbr\u003e  XVI Anti-Climax\u003cbr\u003e XVII The End of the Tour\u003cbr\u003eXVIII The Conquest of Centropolis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE REAL ADVENTURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I The Tune Changes\u003cbr\u003e   II A Broken Parallel\u003cbr\u003e  III Friends\u003cbr\u003e   IV Couleur-de-rose\u003cbr\u003e    V The Beginning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOOK ONE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Illusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA POINT OF DEPARTURE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Indeed,\" continued the professor, glancing demurely down at his notes,\u003cbr\u003e\"if one were the editor of a column of--er advice to young girls, such\u003cbr\u003eas I believe is to be found, along with the household hints and the\u003cbr\u003edress patterns, on the ladies' page of most of our newspapers--if one\u003cbr\u003ewere the editor of such a column, he might crystallize the remarks I\u003cbr\u003ehave been making this morning into a warning--never marry a man with a\u003cbr\u003epassion for principles.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt drew a laugh, of course. Professorial jokes never miss fire. But\u003cbr\u003e_the_ girl didn't laugh. She came to with a start--she had been staring\u003cbr\u003eout the window--and wrote, apparently, the fool thing down in her\u003cbr\u003enote-book. It was the only note she had made in thirty-five minutes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll of his brilliant exposition of the paradox of Rousseau and\u003cbr\u003eRobespierre (he was giving a course on the French Revolution), the\u003cbr\u003estrange and yet inevitable fact that the softest, most sentimental,\u003cbr\u003erose-scented religion ever invented, should have produced, through its\u003cbr\u003emost thoroughly infatuated disciple, the ghastliest reign of terror that\u003cbr\u003eever shocked the world; his masterly character study of the \"sea-green\u003cbr\u003eincorruptible,\" too humane to swat a fly, yet capable of sending half of\u003cbr\u003eFrance to the guillotine in order that the half that was left might\u003cbr\u003ebelieve unanimously in the rights of man; all this the girl had let go\u003cbr\u003eby unheard, in favor, apparently, of the drone of a street piano, which\u003cbr\u003ecame in through the open window on the prematurely warm March wind. Of\u003cbr\u003eall his philosophizing, there was not a pen-track to mar the virginity\u003cbr\u003eof the page she had opened her note-book to when the lecture began.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then, with a perfectly serious face, she had written down his silly\u003cbr\u003elittle joke about advice to young girls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was no reason in the world why she should be The Girl. There were\u003cbr\u003efifteen or twenty of them in the class along with about as many men.\u003cbr\u003eAnd, partly because there was no reason for his paying any special\u003cbr\u003eattention to her, it annoyed him frightfully that he did.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was good-looking, of course--a rather boyishly splendid young\u003cbr\u003ecreature of somewhere about twenty, with a heap of hair that had, in\u003cbr\u003espite of its rather commonplace chestnut color, a sort of electric\u003cbr\u003evitality about it. She was slightly prognathous, which gave a humorous\u003cbr\u003elift to her otherwise sensible nose. She had good straight-looking,\u003cbr\u003eexpressive eyes, too, and a big, wide, really beautiful mouth, with\u003cbr\u003esquare white teeth in it, which, when she smiled or yawned--and she\u003cbr\u003eyawned more luxuriously than any girl who had ever sat in his\u003cbr\u003eclasses--exerted a sort of hypnotic effect on him. All that, however,\u003cbr\u003eleft unexplained the quality she had of making you, whatever she did,\u003cbr\u003eirresistibly aware of her. And, conversely, unaware of every one else\u003cbr\u003eabout her. A bit of campus slang occurred to him as quite literally\u003cbr\u003eapplicable to her. 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