A thirteen chapter preview is available for the lastest Robert Galbraith novel, The Hallmarked Man. This is a copy of the North American edition from Mulholland and the preview is available on the French website Decitre.fr, and is likely to be an error, so for the curious, check it out soon:
https://www.decitre.fr/ebooks/the-hallmarked-man-9780316586023_9780316586023_522.html
Epigraph spoilers after the jump for those who don’t want to wait until it’s got proper cover on.
I had dipped in life’s struggle and, out again,
Bore specks of it here, there, easy to see,
When I found my swan and the cure was plain;
The dull turned bright as I caught your white
On my bosom: you saved me—saved in vain
If you ruined yourself, and all through me!
Robert Browning
The Worst of It
Part 1 epigraph
Concerning the mines themselves he was not called upon for an opinion… all he had to do was to follow the veins and win the ore in paying quantities…
John Oxenham
A Maid of the Silver Sea
Chapter 1
Oh often have I washed and dressed
And what’s to show for all my pain?
Let me lie abed and rest:
Ten thousand times I’ve done my best
And all’s to do again.
A. E. Housman
XI, Last Poems
Chapter 2
… I have lost him, for he does not come,
And I sit stupidly… Oh Heaven, break up
This worse than anguish, this mad apathy,
By any means or any messenger!
Robert Browning
Bells and Pomegranates No. 5 A Blot in the ’Scutcheon
Chapter 3
Too suddenly thou tellest such a loss.
Matthew Arnold
Merope: A Tragedy
Chapter 4
It should be objection sufficient to exclude any man from the society of Masons, that he is not disinterested and generous, both in his acts, and in his opinions of men, and his constructions of their conduct.
Albert Pike
Liturgy of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Chapter 5
But oh, my man, the house is fallen
That none can build again…
A. E. Housman
XVIII, Last Poems
Chapter 6
Grief for the loss of those we love is natural and proper. But we lament not only the death of a friend and benefactor, but also the loss of the True Word, of which we are deprived by his death, and which we have henceforth to seek for until it is recovered.
Albert Pike
Liturgy of the Ancient and Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry
Chapter 7
Dully at the leaden sky
Staring, and with idle eye
Measuring the listless plain,
I began to think again.
A. E. Housman
XXXI: Hell Gate, Last Poems
Chapter 8
It is the saddest of all sights upon this earth, that of a man lazy and luxurious… He is the faithless steward, that embezzles what God has given him in trust…
Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Chapter 9
If you would have me better for your love,
Revert no more to these sad themes.
Robert Browning
Paracelsus
Chapter 10
… a Brotherly affection and kindness should govern us in all our intercourse and relations with our brethren…
Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Chapter 11
If two lives join, there is oft a scar,
They are one and one, with a shadowy third…
Robert Browning
By the Fire-Side
Chapter 12
We are all of us, though not all equally, mistaken.
Albert Pike
The Liturgy of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Chapter 13
And then the sudden sleights, long secresies,
The plots inscrutable, deep telegraphs,
Long-planned chance-meetings, hazards of a look,
‘Does she know? does she not know?’
Robert Browning
In a Balcony
Part 2
‘Sometimes the deepest mines prove the best in the end.’
‘And as long as there’s anybody to pay for it I suppose you go on digging.’
John Oxenham
A Maid of the Silver Sea
Chapter 14
You have taken the first step over its threshold, the first step toward the inner sanctuary and heart of the temple. You are in the path that leads up the slope of the mountain of Truth…
Albert Pike
Morals and Dogma of the Liturgy of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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