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The Fire Within By Patricia Wentworth
Author of "A Marriage under the Terror," etc.
Quench thou the fires of your old gods,
Quench not the fire within."
--Matthew Arnold.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1913
COPYRIGHT, 1913 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
CONTENTS
I. MR. MOTTISFONT'S OPINION OF HIS NEPHEW
II. DAVID BLAKE
III. DEAD MEN'S SHOES
IV. A MAN'S HONOUR
V. TOWN TALK
VI. THE LETTER
VII. ELIZABETH CHANTREY
VIII. EDWARD SINGS
IX . MARY IS SHOCKED
X. EDWARD IS PUT OUT
XI. FORGOTTEN WAYS
XII. THE GREY WOLF
XIII. MARCH GOES OUT
XIV. THE GOLDEN WIND
XV. LOVE MUST TO SCHOOL
XVI. FRIENDSHIP
XVII. THE DREAM
XVIII. THE FACE OF LOVE
XIX. THE FULL MOON
XX. THE WOMAN OF THE DREAM
XXI. ELIZABETH BLAKE
XXII. AFTER THE DREAM
XXIII. ELIZABETH WAITS
XXIV. THE LOST NAME
CHAPTER I
MR. MOTTISFONT'S OPINION OF HIS NEPHEW
As I was going adown the dale
Sing derry down dale, and derry down dale,
As I was going adown the dale,
Adown the dale of a Monday,
With never a thought of the Devil his tricks,
Why who should I meet with his bundle of sticks,
But the very old man of the Nursery tale,
Sing derry down dale, and derry down dale,
The wicked old man of the Nursery tale
Who gathered his sticks of a Sunday.
Sing d