Chapter I: Front Matter

By the Same Author

The Time Machine

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Macmillan's Colonial Library

The Wonderful Visit

by H. G. Wells

Author of the "Time Machine"

London Macmillan and Co. and New York 1895

No. 241

_All rights reserved_

This Edition is intended for circulation only in India and the British Colonies

TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR FRIEND, WALTER LOW.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE NIGHT OF THE STRANGE BIRD 1

THE COMING OF THE STRANGE BIRD 4

THE HUNTING OF THE STRANGE BIRD 8

THE VICAR AND THE ANGEL 17

PARENTHESIS ON ANGELS 35

AT THE VICARAGE 38

THE MAN OF SCIENCE 50

THE CURATE 61

AFTER DINNER 76

MORNING 97

THE VIOLIN 101

THE ANGEL EXPLORES THE VILLAGE 106

LADY HAMMERGALLOW'S VIEW 127

FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE ANGEL IN THE VILLAGE 135

MRS JEHORAM'S BREADTH OF VIEW 148

A TRIVIAL INCIDENT 154

THE WARP AND THE WOOF OF THINGS 156

THE ANGEL'S DEBUT 160

THE TROUBLE OF THE BARBED WIRE 186

DELIA 195

DOCTOR CRUMP ACTS 199

SIR JOHN GOTCH ACTS 208

THE SEA CLIFF 213

MRS HINIJER ACTS 217

THE ANGEL IN TROUBLE 221

THE LAST DAY OF THE VISIT 229

THE EPILOGUE 248

THE WONDERFUL VISIT.

THE NIGHT OF THE STRANGE BIRD.