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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