The Starlight Wonder Book

To one side and below stood the towers and masts of the city; there were sailors in her streets with brown faces, rich merchants in velvet caps and gowns, brave pilots, and adve...

When he opened his eyes again, a great open fire was burning before him on a huge hearth; a blue mug of steaming milk lay waiting at one side; and over him there bent anxiously...

And now a great murmur, even such a sound as heralds the coming of a mighty rain, swept through the wood. Forth from their dens creeping came the bears, the gray wolves, and the...

“Ask me where lies the raindrop which fell yesterday in the river,” replied the Wise Man, “but ask me not where dwells the Master Thief. I do not know. No one knows. But as for...

“A brave answer,” said the old Husbandman with a smile. “But you have earned your wage, good friend. I’ll give you _a wish_. Be in no haste to use it. And guard it well!”

Now it came to pass that, when Hugh had filled his pockets and his hat with gold, he discovered a third adamant door leading from the chamber and, passing through it, found hims...

Far otherwise, alas, were the fortunes of Ailinda! Scolded to work at the earliest dawn and kept at some task till well into the night, the poor maiden had hardly a moment’s tim...

When he woke again, close upon noon, he found that the waves had carried him to the stony beach of a dark and unknown isle. A stately wall of cliffs of the strangest dark-blue s...

PAGE THE BRAVE GRENADIER 3 THE PALACE OF THE NIGHT 21 THE ENCHANTED BABY 45 THE TWO MILLERS 69 THE ADAMANT DOOR 89 THE CITY OF THE WINTER SLEEP 110 AILEEL AND AILINDA 131 THE WO...

And now it was the marriage morn; great clouds fled over the sun, chilling and quieting the world, yet every now and then breaking asunder and dappling the broad land with spots...