THE TREES OF PRIDE     

  

       by Gilbert K. Chesterton     

   

   

       Contents     

  THE TREES OF PRIDE  

  I. THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES  

  II. THE WAGER OF SQUIRE VANE  

  III. THE MYSTERY OF THE WELL  

  IV. THE CHASE AFTER THE TRUTH  

   

    

       THE TREES OF PRIDE     

  

       I. THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES     

       Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish extraction. His English education, at one of the great public schools, had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood. But his Irish extraction subconsciously upset in him the proper solemnity of an old boy, and sometimes gave him back the brighter outlook of a naughty boy. He had a bodily impatience which played tricks upon him almost against his will, and had already rendered him rather too radiant a failure in civil and diplomatic service. Thus it is 

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