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NOTHING ELSE MATTERS

A NOVEL



BY

WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON
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CONTENTS




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PAGE


-3


Prelude


7


I.
Initiation


9


II.
Confidences


26


III.
En Charette


88


IV.
The Book


58


V.
Alchemy ,


71


VI.
Les Apaches


84


VII.
A Vague Villain


106


VIII.
Love


120


IX.
The Rescue


180


X.
Beamy Jimmy


146


XI.
The Great Interrogation


166


XII.
Vipers* Bites


171


XIII.
Petal by Petal


185


XIV.
Between the Horns


199


XV.
La Brise du RSve


215


XVI.
Frost Work


228


XVII.
Strategics


281


XVIII.
Veracities


246


XIX.
TheWiU


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XX.
Burglary


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XXI.
Sub Silentio


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Fostlude


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PRELUDE

'YT'OU have asked me, you Five Dear Ones,
to record against the forgetful years
■(still far ahead!) certain Little Adventures,
violent, vivid, yet whimsic-strange, that be-
fell us in Paris (ah! the lost Boheme!), col-
ouring the same, at my own proper peril,
with certain Little Emotions that ached
delicately in mute (but inter-gravitating)
hearts.
At my proper peril, forsooth; that should
give me pause . ..
