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Title: The dryad
a novel
Author: Justin H. McCarthy
Release date: July 5, 2025 [eBook #76442]
Language: English
Original publication: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905
Credits: Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
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THE DRYAD
A Novel
BY JUSTIN HUNTLY McCARTHY
AUTHOR OF "THE LADY OF LOYALTY HOUSE"
"THE PROUD PRINCE" "MARJORIE" ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS
PUBLISHERS :: MCMV
Copyright, 1905, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published March, 1905.
ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΦΙΛΗΝ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΝ
Most dear, most fair, these pages go
To you, who watched this story grow
Through days of sun and days of snow,
A legend of the Long Ago.
Where Wonder-Wood is all aglow
With godlike forms, and far below
The bland Athenian breezes blow,
The faint Athenian fountains flow.
Take up and read, and reading know
How much to you these pages owe
Since first we bandied to and fro
Sweet fancies, swift to come and go.
J. H. McC.
IX. II. MCMV.
CONTENTS
| I. | In the Wonder-Wood |
| II. | Rainouart |
| III. | Argathona |
| IV. | The Mystic Rose |
| V. | The Song of the Forest |
| VI. | Like Unto Adonis |
| VII. | Love is Enough |
| VIII. | Simon Spies |
| IX. | The Duchess of Thebes |
| X. | Simon Blows Out His Lantern |
| XI. | The Catalan Grand Company |
| XII. | The Winding of the Horn |
| XIII. | The Knight of Eleusis |
| XIV. | The Triumph of Thebes |
| XV. | The Challenge of Rainouart |
| XVI. | The Tournament |
| XVII. | The Rose of the World |
| XVIII. | An Apple of Gold |
| XIX. | Simon the Stalwart |
| XX. | The Promise of Rainouart |
| XXI. | The Wine of Esclaramonde |
| XXII. | Remember the Greenwood |
| XXIII. | Simon's Charge |
| XXIV. | The Honor of the Rock |
| XXV. | Cephissus |
| XXVI. | The Anchorite |
| XXVII. | The Dream of Argathona |
| XXVIII. | Lover and Lass |
| XXIX. | What Simon Found in the Forest |
| XXX. | Renunciation |