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Author Of "The Milky Way,"
"Beggars On Horseback," Etc.
"Bread eaten in secret…"
New York
George H. Doran Company
Copyright, 1917,
By George H. Doran Company
Printed In The United States Of America
Prologue
I High Adventures in a Farmyard
II The Mill
III The Kitchen
IV Pagan Pastoral
V Head of the House
VI Reactions
VII The Chapel
VIII Seed-Time
IX Fresh Pasture
X Hilaria
XI The Place on the Moor
XII Some Ambitions and an Announcement
XIII The Wrestling
XIV The Wind upon the Grass-Field
I A Family Album
II What Men Live By
III First Furrow
IV The Shadow at the Window
V Lull Before Storm
VI The Bush-Beating
VII The Heart of the Cyclone
VIII New Horizons
IX Hidden Springs
X Blind Steps
XI Glamour
XII Sheaves
XIII The Stile
XIV A Letter
XV Blown Husks
XVI The Grey World
XVII The Cliff and the Valley
XVIII The Immortal Moment
I Under-Currents
II The Passage
III Phoebe Pays Toll
IV The Discovering of Nicky
V Centripetal Movement
VI The Nation and Nicky
VII Paradise Cottage Again
VIII What Nicky Did
IX Judith's White Night
X Lone Trails
XI Ways of Love
XII Georgie
I Questions of Vision
II Autumn
III Bodies of Fire
IV The New Judith
V The Parson's Philosophy
VI "Something Must Come to All of Us…"
VII Earth
I The Four-Acre
II Archelaus, Nicky, Jim
III The Letters
IV Hester
V Reaping
VI Threshing
VII Garnered Grain
Epilogue
There was silence in the room where James Ruan lay in the great bed,awaiting his marriage and his death—a silence so hushed that it was notbroken, only faintly stirred, by the knocking of a fitful wind at thecasement, and the occasional collapse of the glowing embers on thehearth. The firelight flickered over the whitewashed walls, which weredimmed to a pearly greyness by the stronger light without; the sickman's face was deep in shadow under the bed canopy, but one full-veinedhand showed dark upon the bl