Of Human Bondage. Уильям Сомерсет Моэм

      Of Human Bondage

      by William Somerset Maugham

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-63384-321-9

      Table of Contents

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

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       XX

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       XXX

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       XL

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       L

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       C

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      I

      The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed.

      “Wake up, Philip,” she said.

      She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her arms, and carried him downstairs. He was only half awake.

      “Your mother wants you,” she said.

      She opened the door of a room on the floor below and took the child over to a bed in which a woman was lying. It was his mother. She stretched out her arms, and the child nestled by her side. He did not ask why he had been awakened. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She pressed him closer to herself.

      “Are you sleepy, darling?” she said.