FRANK WALLER ALLEN AUTHOR OF "BACK TO ARCADY" WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY
GEORGE HOOD
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
PART FIRST
THE GOLDEN ROAD
CHAPTER ONE THE HAPPY PEDLER COMES TO TOWN
CHAPTER TWO THE JADE AND THE INQUISITION
CHAPTER THREE JEAN FRANaeOIS' VAST POSSESSIONS
CHAPTER FOUR THE MISADVENTURE OF A CIRCUS
CHAPTER FIVE TIMID CONQUEST COMES TO TOWN
CHAPTER SIX THE JADE, A NONENTITY, BECOMES THE ILLUSTRIOUS NANCE
CHAPTER SEVEN A PEDLER'S PACK OF DREAMS
CHAPTER EIGHT MONSIEUR L'ABBE PICOT OF THE BRAVE OUTLANDISH HEART
CHAPTER NINE THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN
PART SECOND Ten Years Later
CHAPTER TEN ON THE MORNING ROAD
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE SATISFACTORY EXPLANATION OF NANCE
CHAPTER TWELVE A HEBE OF THE HIGHWAY
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE NIGHT IN THE GREENWOOD
CHAPTER FOURTEEN VICARIOUS VAGABONDS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN "IF I WERE MONSIEUR L'ABBE PICOT"
CHAPTER SIXTEEN HEBE'S FAREWELL TO PAN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE DAY OF FAITH
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE DAY OF DOUBT
CHAPTER NINETEEN THE DAY OF LOST CONFIDENCE
PART THIRD Midwinter: Eight Months Later We talked of "Children
CHAPTER TWENTY MONSIEUR L'ABBE AT HOME
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE "LITTLE SAINT JACQUES OF THE STREET"
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO MONSIEUR L'ABBE LIES ILL
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE PRIEST AND FAUN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE MONSIEUR L'ABBE PICOT GOES UPON A JOURNEY
Title: The Golden Road
Author: Frank Waller Allen
Language: English
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THE GOLDEN ROAD
There is night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath.
—George Borrow.
"Good-night, dear Jean FranÇois," said she with gaiety.
"May your dreams be of your beloved roads of Picardy." She threw him an elfish kiss from her finger-tips and hastened into her airy improvised bedroom.
THE GOLDEN ROAD
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