Wilfrid Cumbermede

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Wilfrid Cumbermede is a book by George Macdonald, and its contents list names chapters headed, among others, MY UNCLE AND AUNT, AT THE TOP OF THE CHIMNEY-STAIR and THE PENDULUM. The narrator says, "I was nearly a man now; I would be afraid of things no more; I would get out my pendulum, and see whether that would not help me." The narrator describes setting the pendulum in motion: "It swung slower and slower. It wanted to stop. It should not stop."

A character named Mr Coningham asks, "May I come in for a few minutes, Mr Cumbermede?" and is told to tie his horse to this ring, as there is no stable here. The narrator writes, "There lay Mary, and here lay I, both in God's arms, utterly parted."

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons.