At the Back of the North Wind
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George MacDonald. At the Back of the North Wind
CHAPTER I. THE HAY-LOFT
CHAPTER II. THE LAWN
CHAPTER III. OLD DIAMOND
CHAPTER IV. NORTH WIND
CHAPTER V. THE SUMMER-HOUSE
CHAPTER VI. OUT IN THE STORM
CHAPTER VII. THE CATHEDRAL
CHAPTER VIII. THE EAST WINDOW
CHAPTER IX. HOW DIAMOND GOT TO THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
CHAPTER X. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
CHAPTER XI. HOW DIAMOND GOT HOME AGAIN
CHAPTER XII. WHO MET DIAMOND AT SANDWICH
CHAPTER XIII. THE SEASIDE
CHAPTER XIV. OLD DIAMOND
CHAPTER XV. THE MEWS
CHAPTER XVI. DIAMOND MAKES A BEGINNING
CHAPTER XVII. DIAMOND GOES ON
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DRUNKEN CABMAN
CHAPTER XIX. DIAMOND’S FRIENDS
CHAPTER XX. DIAMOND LEARNS TO READ
CHAPTER XXI. SAL’S NANNY
CHAPTER XXII. MR. RAYMOND’S RIDDLE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE EARLY BIRD
CHAPTER XXIV. ANOTHER EARLY BIRD
CHAPTER XXV. DIAMOND’S DREAM
CHAPTER XXVI. DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
CHAPTER XXVIII. LITTLE DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER XXIX. RUBY
CHAPTER XXX. NANNY’S DREAM
CHAPTER XXXI. THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW
CHAPTER XXXII. DIAMOND AND RUBY
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENS
CHAPTER XXXIV. IN THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER XXXV. I MAKE DIAMOND’S ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XXXVI. DIAMOND QUESTIONS NORTH WIND
CHAPTER XXXVII. ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
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WHEN Diamond got round the corner of the hay, for a moment he hesitated. The stair by which he would naturally have gone down to the door was at the other side of the loft, and looked very black indeed; for it was full of North Wind’s hair, as she descended before him. And just beside him was the ladder going straight down into the stable, up which his father always came to fetch the hay for Diamond’s dinner. Through the opening in the floor the faint gleam of the-stable lantern was enticing, and Diamond thought he would run down that way.
The stair went close past the loose-box in which Diamond the horse lived. When Diamond the boy was half-way down, he remembered that it was of no use to go this way, for the stable-door was locked. But at the same moment there was horse Diamond’s great head poked out of his box on to the ladder, for he knew boy Diamond although he was in his night-gown, and wanted him to pull his ears for him. This Diamond did very gently for a minute or so, and patted and stroked his neck too, and kissed the big horse, and had begun to take the bits of straw and hay out of his mane, when all at once he recollected that the Lady North Wind was waiting for him in the yard.
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Another bound, and they stood in the road by the river. It was full tide, and the stars were shining clear in its depths, for it lay still, waiting for the turn to run down again to the sea. They walked along its side. But they had not walked far before its surface was covered with ripples, and the stars had vanished from its bosom.
And North Wind was now tall as a full-grown girl. Her hair was flying about her head, and the wind was blowing a breeze down the river. But she turned aside and went up a narrow lane, and as she went her hair fell down around her.
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