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OF HUMAN BONDAGE, by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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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 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.

Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already from a
great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled