Author of
"A Woman with a Purpose," "The Bridge Builders," etc.
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
WILSON C. DEXTER
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1912
Copyright, 1912,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published, January, 1912
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
Transcriber's Note:
Beginning with Chapter 19 the spelling of Kathryn inexplicably changes to Katherine.
The Table of Contents is not contained in the original book. It has been generated for the convenience of the reader.
CONTENTS
e thicket there came a strange, sweet song, and these were the words:
All service ranks the same with God:
... there is no last nor first."
The youth sprang up; the wind lifted his hair, the light leaped into his eyes, and he began to do the smallest thing perfectly.
Farther down the road there was a ruined house; a man leaned his head on his hand and looked from the window. A great deed that the world needed must be done; and the man loved the great deed, but his heart had grown faint, and he waited.
And it chanced that Pippa passed, singing, and her song reached the man; and it was to him as if God called. He rose up strong and brave, and leaping to his horse he rode away to give the great deed to the world.
At night when the tired Pippa lay upon her little bed, she said to the day, "Sweet Day, you brought me no loving deed to give in payment for the joy you gave."
But the day knew.
And on the morrow, the child Pippa went back to the mill and wound the silk bobbins, and she was so full of gladness, she hummed with them all day.Contents
Know'st thou the land where citrons are in bloom,
The orange glows amidst a leafy gloom,
A gentle breeze from cloudless heaven blows
The myrtle still, and high the laurel grows?
Know'st thou it well?
Ah! there—Ah, there would I fare!
—From Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."
Mignon
View larger image
By Paul Kiessling
MIGNON
