Ἐχθρὸς γάρ μοι κεῖνος ὁμῶς Ἀΐδαο πύλῃσιν ὅς χ’ ἕτερον μὲν κεύθῃ ἐνὶ φρεσίν, ἄλλο δὲ εἴπῃ. Him do I hate even as I hate Hell fire, Who says one thing, and hides another in his heart. Iliad, IX 312, 313...

I forget when, but not very long after I had published Erewhon in 1872, it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhon would probably take after Mr. Higgs, as I suppose I may now call h...

Before telling the story of my father’s second visit to the remarkable country which he discovered now some thirty years since, I should perhaps say a few words about his career between the publicatio...

When my father reached the colony for which he had left England some twenty-two years previously, he bought a horse, and started up country on the evening of the day after his arrival, which was, as I...

My father found the ascent more fatiguing than he remembered it to have been. The climb, he said, was steady, and took him between four and five hours, as near as he could guess, now that he had no wa...

My father, schooled under adversity, knew that it was never well to press advantage too far. He took the equivalent of five shillings for three brace, which was somewhat less than the birds would have...

The incidents recorded in the two last chapters had occupied about two hours, so that it was nearly midnight before my father could begin to retrace his steps and make towards the camp that he had lef...

It is one thing to desire a conversation to be changed, and another to change it. After some little silence my father said, “And may I ask what name your mother gave you?” “My name,” he answered, laug...

He had not gone far before a turn in the path⁠—now rapidly widening⁠—showed him two high towers, seemingly some two miles off; these he felt sure must be at Sunch’ston, he therefore stepped out, lest ...

The Professors, returning to their hotel early on the Friday morning, found a note from the Mayoress urging them to be her guests during the remainder of their visit, and to meet other friends at dinn...

“What did you think of Panky?” “I could not make him out. If he had not been a Bridgeford Professor I might have liked him; but you know how we all of us distrust those people.” “Where did you meet hi...

I will now return to my father. Whether from fatigue or over-excitement, he slept only by fits and starts, and when awake he could not rid himself of the idea that, in spite of his disguise, he might ...

Belief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance, and this path had led Dr. Gurgoyle to the conviction, real or feigned, that my father was son to the sun, probably by the moon...

On the morning after the interview with her son described in a foregoing chapter, Yram told her husband what she had gathered from the Professors, and said that she was expecting Higgs every moment, i...

Having finished his early dinner, and not fearing that he should be either recognised at Fairmead or again enquired after from Sunch’ston, my father went out for a stroll round the town, to see what e...

Up to this point, though he had seen enough to show him the main drift of the great changes that had taken place in Erewhonian opinions, my father had not been able to glean much about the history of ...

“It is enough to break one’s heart,” said Mr. Balmy when he had outstripped the procession, and my father was again beside him. “ ‘As well as,’ indeed! We know what that means. Wherever there is a fac...

Professor Hanky then went up into the pulpit, richly but soberly robed in vestments the exact nature of which I cannot determine. His carriage was dignified, and the harsh lines on his face gave it a ...

By this time George had got my father into the open square, where he was surprised to find that a large bonfire had been made and lighted. There had been nothing of the kind an hour before; the wood, ...

The disturbance caused by my father’s outbreak was quickly suppressed, for George got him out of the temple almost immediately; it was bruited about, however, that the Sunchild had come down from the ...

“Now who,” said Yram, “is this unfortunate creature to be, when he is brought up tomorrow morning, on the charge of poaching?” “It is not necessary,” said Hanky severely, “that he should be brought up...

They returned in about ten minutes, and Dr. Downie asked Mrs. Humdrum to say what they had agreed to recommend. “We think,” said she very demurely, “that the strict course would be to drop the charge ...

Yram did not take the advice she had given her guests, but set about preparing a basket of the best cold dainties she could find, including a bottle of choice wine that she knew my father would like; ...

While my father was thus wiling away the hours in his cell, the whole town was being illuminated in his honour, and not more than a couple of hundred yards off, at the Mayor’s banquet, he was being ex...

My father said he was followed to the Mayor’s house by a good many people, whom the Mayor’s sons in vain tried to get rid of. One or two of these still persisted in saying he was the Sunchild⁠—whereon...

It was about six when George’s fiancée left the house, and as soon as she had done so, Yram began to see about the rug and the best substitutes she could find for the billy and pannikin. She had a bas...

The streets were quite deserted as George had said they would be, and very dark, save for an occasional oil lamp. “As soon as we can get within the preserves,” said George, “we had better wait till mo...

My father could walk but slowly, for George’s boots had blistered his feet, and it seemed to him that the riverbed, of which he caught glimpses now and again, never got any nearer; but all things come...

This book has already become longer than I intended, but I will ask the reader to have patience while I tell him briefly of my own visit to the threshold of that strange country of which I fear that h...

I have said on an earlier page that George gained an immediate ascendancy over me, but ascendancy is not the word⁠—he took me by storm; how, or why, I neither know nor want to know, but before I had b...

See Chapter X. ↩...