Stephen Archer, and Other Tales

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George MacDonald. Stephen Archer, and Other Tales

STEPHEN ARCHER

THE GIFTS OF THE CHILD CHRIST

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGEN AND NYCTERIS

CHAPTER I. WATHO

CHAPTER II. AURORA

CHAPTER III. VESPER

CHAPTER IV. PHOTOGEN

CHAPTER V. NYCTERIS

CHAPTER VI. HOW PHOTOGEN GREW

CHAPTER VII. HOW NYCTERIS GREW

CHAPTER VIII. THE LAMP

CHAPTER IX. OUT

CHAPTER X. THE GREAT LAMP

CHAPTER XI. THE SUNSET

CHAPTER XII. THE GARDEN

CHAPTER XIII. SOMETHING QUITE NEW

CHAPTER XIV. THE SUN

CHAPTER XV. THE COWARD HERO

CHAPTER XVI. AN EVIL NURSE

CHAPTER XVII. WATHO'S WOLF

CHAPTER XVIII. REFUGE

CHAPTER XIX. THE WEREWOLF

CHAPTER XX. ALL IS WELL

THE BUTCHER'S BILLS

CHAPTER I. HUSBAND AND WIFE

CHAPTER II. AN ASTONISHMENT

CHAPTER III. ANOTHER ASTONISHMENT

CHAPTER IV. WHAT IT MEANT

CHAPTER V. WHAT CAME OF IT

PORT IN A STORM

IF I HAD A FATHER

ACT I

ACT II

ACT III

ACT IV

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"My hearers, we grow old," said the preacher. "Be it summer or be it spring with us now, autumn will soon settle down into winter, that winter whose snow melts only in the grave. The wind of the world sets for the tomb. Some of us rejoice to be swept along on its swift wings, and hear it bellowing in the hollows of earth and sky; but it will grow a terror to the man of trembling limb and withered brain, until at length he will long for the shelter of the tomb to escape its roaring and buffeting. Happy the man who shall then be able to believe that old age itself, with its pitiable decays and sad dreams of youth, is the chastening of the Lord, a sure sign of his love and his fatherhood."

It was the first Sunday in Advent; but "the chastening of the Lord" came into almost every sermon that man preached.

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"Alice, my girl!" began John again, in expostulatory tone.

"Miss Cox, if you please, John Jephson," interposed Alice.

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