Chapter 9

IN WHICH THE RIVER FINDS THE SEA

XXX. A Terror in the Snow 279

XXXI. Fate Empties Her Creel 289

XXXII. The Sunset End 294

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ILLUSTRATIONS

They Crooned Together There, the Woman, the Child and the Birds _Frontispiece_

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Scooped Hundreds--Perhaps Thousands--Out of a Chest to Flee at Dawn 43

The Tall, Gaunt, Silent Woman ... Striding Through the Pastures 49

I Seem to See ... a Beautiful Woman in a Blue Dress Sitting Under a Fruit Tree 105

Persons Born in That Month of That Year Will Never Be Otherwise Than Far Out of the Ordinary 132

Margarita Stopped and Stared at It Several Minutes 144

For Hours and Hours I Walked, Muttering and Cursing 163

Her Weekly Check, Plus a Draft for a Hundred Pounds 174

She Spins Her Hemp and Weaves Osiers into Baskets and Changes Them for Goats' Hams 204

The Gloomy, Faded Glories of the Musty Palace 208

Ah, Faithful Caliban, What Hours of Terrible Tuition Made Thy Task Clear to Thee! 233

He Sketched Her in Charcoal, Dressed (He Would Have It) in Black 240

It Was After the Garden Love-Scene That She Won Her Recalls 250

They Are Still as Death, Tranced in Those Liquid Bell-Tones 270

I Leaned Over the Bank and Cried That I Was There, But She Never Stopped--It Was Terrible 281

It Is a Favourite Claim of Ours Who Are Bidden to That Home That It Is an Enchanted Isle 296

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