Mr. Standfast

by John Buchan · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 7,023 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Hannay, Richard (Fictitious character) — Fiction · Intelligence service — Great Britain — Fiction · Spy stories · War stories

Words worth knowing: peat · divisional · smithy · puffy · petrol · collide · tornado · spree

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan TO THAT MOST GALLANT COMPANY THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY BRIGADE on the Western Front NOTE The earlier adventures of Richard Hannay, to which occasional reference is made in this narrative, are recounted in The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle.

I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night.

In the first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but the cool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manor with a mighty appetite and a quiet mind.

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