The Weavers

The Weavers (A Tale of England
and Egypt of Fifty Years Ago),
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THE WEAVERS
By Gilbert Parker

CONTENTS
BOOK I I. AS THE SPIRIT MOVED II. THE GATES OF THE
WORLD III. BANISHED IV. THE CALL
BOOK II
V. THE WIDER WAY VI. "HAST THOU NEVER BILLED A
MANY" VII. THE COMPACT VIII. FOR HIS SOUL'S SAKE AND
THE LAND'S SAKE IX. THE LETTER, THE NIGHT, AND THE
WOMAN X. THE FOUR WHO KNEW XI. AGAINST THE HOUR
OF MIDNIGHT XII. THE JEHAD AND THE LIONS XIII. ACHMET
THE ROPEMAKER STRIKES XIV. BEYOND THE PALE
BOOK III XV. SOOLSBY'S HAND UPON THE CURTAIN XVI.
THE DEBT AND THE ACCOUNTING XVII. THE WOMAN OF
THE CROSS-ROADS XVIII. TIME, THE IDOL-BREAKER XIX.
SHARPER THAN A SWORD XX. EACH AFTER HIS OWN
ORDER XXI. "THERE IS NOTHING HIDDEN WHICH SHALL
NOT BE REVEALED" XXII. AS IN A GLASS DARKLY XXIII.
THE TENTS OF CUSHAN XXIV. THE QUESTIONER XXV. THE
VOICE THROUGH THE DOOR XXVI. "I OWE YOU NOTHING"
XXVII. THE AWAKENING
BOOK IV XXVIII. NAHOUM TURNS THE SCREW XXIX. THE
RECOIL XXX. LACEY MOVES XXXI. THE STRUGGLE IN THE
DESERT XXXII. FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE XXXIII. THE

DARK INDENTURE XXXIV. NAHOUM DROPS THE MASK
BOOK V XXXV. THE FLIGHT OF THE WOUNDED XXXVI. "IS IT
ALWAYS SO-IN LIFE?" XXXVII. THE FLYING SHUTTLE
XXXVIII. JASPER KIMBER SPEAKS XXXIX. FAITH JOURNEYS
TO LONDON
BOOK VI XL. HYLDA SEEKS NAHOUM XLI. IN THE LAND OF
SHINAR XLII. THE LOOM OF DESTINY

INTRODUCTION
When I turn over the hundreds of pages of this book, I have a feeling
that I am looking upon something for which I have no particular
responsibility, though it has a strange contour of familiarity. It is as
though one looks upon a scene in which one had lived and moved, with
the friendly yet half-distant feeling that it once was one's own
possession but is so no longer. I should think the feeling to be much
like that of the old man whose sons, gone to distant places, have
created their own plantations of life and have themselves become the
masters of possessions. Also I suppose that when I read the story
through again from the first page to the last, I shall recreate the feeling
in which I lived when I wrote it, and it will become a part of my own
identity again. That distance between himself and his work, however,
which immediately begins to grow as soon as a book leaves the author's
hands for those of the public, is a thing which, I suppose, must come to
one who produces a work of the imagination. It is no doubt due to the
fact that every piece of art which has individuality and real likeness to
the scenes and character it is intended to depict is done in a kind of
trance. The author, in effect, self-hypnotises himself, has created an
atmosphere which is separate and apart from that of his daily
surroundings, and by virtue of his imagination becomes absorbed in
that atmosphere. When the book is finished and it goes forth, when the
imagination is relaxed and the concentration of mind is withdrawn, the
atmosphere disappears, and then. One experiences what I feel when I
take up 'The Weavers' and, in a sense, wonder how it was done, such as
it is.
The frontispiece of the English edition represents a scene in the House
of Commons, and this brings to my