The Unknown Quantity. Henry Van Dyke

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       Henry Van Dyke

      The Unknown Quantity

      A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066190910

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 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

       THE SAD SHEPHERD

       I

       II

       III

       THE MANSION

       I

       II

       BY HENRY VAN DYKE

       CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

PREFACE

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      There is a chain of little lakes—a necklace of lost jewels—lying in the forest that clothes the blue Laurentian Mountains in the Province of Quebec.

      Each of these hidden lakes has its own character and therefore its own charm. One is bright and friendly, with wooded hills around it, and silver beaches, and red berries of the rowan-tree fringing the shores. Another is sombre and lonely, set in a circle of dark firs and larches,