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Page 104 - I don't want you to die, and I don't want to die — yet. But if it is to-night, it will be together. Will it be to-night, do you think?
Page 94 - What frightened you? Did you think I was a scamp?" "I wasn't frightened," said Helen. "Don't tell me," mocked the boy. "You couldn't get a word out." "I wasn't frightened." "You thought I was a bad lot. You don't know I'm not one now.
Page vii - THEN THERE WERE THREE Illustrated by Isabel and John Morton-Sale "Though written over 20 years ago, these . . . poems still appeal to little girls." — Library Journal. $3.50 MARTIN PIPPIN IN THE APPLE ORCHARD Illustrated by Richard Kennedy "Before I had read five pages of Martin Pippin ... I had forgotten who I was and where I lived ... I was transported into a world of sunlight, of gay inconsequence, of emotional surprise, a world of poetry, delight and humour."— from JD Beresford's Foreword...
Page 38 - Yes," she said in a low voice. "But wait." And she slipped out of his embrace, and he heard her enter the Pond, and she stayed there as it seemed to him a lifetime ; but presently she rose up, and even in that black night the whiteness of her body was visible to him, and she came to him as she was and laid her head on his breast and said: "I am your Woman.
Page 25 - I have never worked in my life." "Why, where have you lived?" exclaimed the Lad. "In a Barn." "But one works in a Barn — " "Stop !" cried the King, putting his fingers in his ears. "One prays in a Barn." "Very likely," said the Lad, looking at him curiously. "Are you going to pray in one?" "Yes," said the King. "When is the New Moon?
Page 33 - ... should be gone, and never remind me that the moment to depart is due." And he stretched out his arms to her, sealed up his lips, and went into the Ring. Once more he knelt between the giant beeches, and sank all thoughts in pious contemplation ; till suddenly those still waters were convulsed as though with stormy currents, and a wild song beat through his breast, so that he could not believe it was the bird singing from a short distance: it was as though the storm of music broke from his singing...
Page 22 - ... has been successfully accomplished, return to us for a blessing and the gray robe of our Order." "But how," asked the King, "during my vigils shall I know when midnight is due?" "In the third quarter after eleven a bird- sings. At the beginning of its song go forth from the Ring, and at the ending plunge your head into the Pond. For on these nights the bird sings ceaselessly for fifteen minutes, but stops at the very moment of midnight.
Page 20 - ... dead, our young King sat on a tussock of hay with his golden crown on his head and his golden scepter in his hand, and ate bread and cheese thrice a day, throwing the rind to the rats and the crumbs to the swallows. His name was William, and beyond the rats and the swallows he had no other company than a nag called Pepper, whom he fed daily from the tussock he sat on. But at the end of a week he said : "It is a dull life. What should a King do in a Barn?