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Henry Van Dyke. The Unknown Quantity
The Unknown Quantity
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE WEDDING-RING
MESSENGERS AT THE WINDOW
I
II
THE COUNTERSIGN OF THE CRADLE
I
II
HALF-TOLD TALES
THE KEY OF THE TOWER. THE RIPENING OF THE FRUIT. THE KING'S JEWEL
THE KEY of the TOWER
THE RIPENING OF THE FRUIT
THE KING'S JEWEL
THE MUSIC-LOVER
I
II
III
HUMORESKE
I
II
III
HALF-TOLD TALES
AN OLD GAME. THE UNRULY SPRITE. A CHANGE OF AIR
AN OLD GAME
THE UNRULY SPRITE
A PARTIAL FAIRY TALE
A CHANGE OF AIR
THE NIGHT CALL
I
II
III
IV
THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER
II
THE RETURN OF THE CHARM
I
II
HALF-TOLD TALES
BEGGARS UNDER THE BUSH. STRONGHOLD. IN THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY
BEGGARS under the BUSH
STRONGHOLD
IN the ODOUR of SANCTITY
Mortem suscepit cantando
THE SAD SHEPHERD
I
DARKNESS
II
NIGHTFIRE
III
DAWN
THE MANSION
I
II
BY HENRY VAN DYKE
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
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Henry Van Dyke
A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales
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"But, oh," cried Nataline, "the pity of it! I can't get over the pity of it. The poor little one,—how it must be deceived,—to seek light and to find death! Let me go out and look for it. Perhaps it is not dead."
She came back in a minute, the rain-drops shining on her cheeks and in her hair. In the hollow of her firm hands she held a feathery brown little body, limp and warm. We examined it carefully. It was stunned, but not killed, and apparently neither leg nor wing was broken.
