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The Trees of Pride
G. K. Chesterton
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Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?
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"Do I understand, Mr. Treherne," asked Ashe, "that you support the miraculous claims of St. Securis in this case. Do you, by any chance, believe in the walking trees?"
"I see men as trees walking," answered the poet, "like the man cured of blindness in the Gospel. By the way, do I understand that you support the miraculous claims of that—thaumaturgist?"
Paynter intervened swiftly and suavely. "Now that sounds a fascinating piece of psychology. You see men as trees?"
"As I can't imagine why men should walk, I can't imagine why trees shouldn't," answered Treherne.
"Obviously, it is the nature of the organism", interposed the medical guest, Dr. Burton Brown; "it is necessary in the very type of vegetable structure."
"In other words, a tree sticks in the mud fro. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
A very fun whodunnit. An easy, enjoyable read.
I read this story immediately following "The Man Who Knew Too Much". I enjoyed this much more simply because it was one story. Like the previous collection of stories this one doesn't get off to a quick start. There are lots of character introductions and, as this is one of my main difficulties with
A fun mystery. Foreign trees planted in England. Many claim they are haunted and bring death. The owner says that is ridiculous so he goes to spend the night in the trees. He disappears.
GKC writes in such a lively way. His descriptions amaze me. A short book that is very worth the read.
This is at one and the same time one of Chesterton's paradoxical mysteries and one of his most pronounced moral landscapes. What I mean by this expression is that the author uses a strange, even eldritch landscape as suggesting a moral evil or imbalance that must be righted. He has used this techniq