The Angel and the Author, and others

The Angel and the Author - and Others, by Jerome K. Jerome
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Title: The Angel and the Author - and Others
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Release Date: May 16, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1908 Hurst and Blackett edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE ANGEL AND THE AUTHOR —AND OTHERS
BY
JEROME K. JEROME Author of “Paul Kelver,” “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,” “The Passing of the Third Floor Back,” and others.
LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, LIMITED 182, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 1908
CHAPTER I
I had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad that I was going up. “They have been noticing me,” I thought to myself. “If anything, I have been a bit too good. A little less virtue and I might have lived longer. But one cannot have everything.” The world grew smaller and smaller. The last I saw of London was the long line of electric lamps bordering the Embankment; later ...