The Great Adventurer Author:Robert Shackleton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: Doubleday, Page and Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and t... more »here may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III At Lorenzo Carter's John Kelburn had returned from the convention to his home in Lake City, where the laurels which he had won, and the public attention which he had attracted, through his brilliant leadership against some of the ablest men of his denomination, gave a new impetus to the growth of his popularity. He had had charge of the church of Lorenzo Carter for less than a year, but he was distinctly more famous than he had been in Boston. People felt that he liked them, and they liked him heartily in return; and so full of interest were his sermons, and so full of attractiveness was his personality, that it was seldom that he looked down from his pulpit upon an empty pew. Yet he was far from satisfied; he was, in fact, seriously disquieted. It was not on account of Katharine. He had sharply put thoughts of her away on the day upon which the gargoyle's glance had made him realise how deeply the unexpected sight of her had affected him; he was accustomed to rule his spirit, and that day had been a quiet warning to him. What disturbed him, in this first year of his work in the city to which he had so gladly gone and where he had been so warmly welcomed, was a harassing fear that he was not successful in the deepest and most important sense. To no one had he even hinted of this growing dread, and none had suspected what pain it caused him when one of the oldest members of the congregation, at a monthly meeting o...« less