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OF HUMAN BONDAGE, by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K.
Posted to Wiretap in July 1993, as humbond.txt.
Italics are marked with _Italics_.
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE
BY
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC.
COPYRIGHT, 1915
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
OF HUMAN BONDAGE
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CHAPTER 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 he . . .
