THE MERMAID***
E-text prepared by Robert Cicconetti, Martin Pettit, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by Early Canadiana Online (http://www.canadiana.org/cihm/)
Note: Images of the original pages are available through Early Canadiana Online. See http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/ItemRecord/16900?id=897df8542fb3366c
THE MERMAID
"Lady, I fain would tell how evermore Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor Thee from myself, neither our love from God."
A Love Tale
by
L. DOUGALL
Author of Beggars All, What Necessity Knows, Etc.
New York D. Appleton and Company 1895 Copyright, 1895, by D. Appleton and Company.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER PAGE
I.--THE BENT TWIG 1
II.--THE SAD-EYED CHILD 4
III.--LOST IN THE SEA 11
IV.--A QUIET LIFE 19
V.--SEEN THROUGH BLEAR EYES 24
VI.--"FROM HOUR TO HOUR WE RIPE----" 34
VII.--"A SEA CHANGE" 41
VIII.--BELIEF IN THE IMPOSSIBLE 49
IX.--THE SEA-MAID'S MUSIC 56
X.--TOWED BY THE BEARD 65
XI.--YEARS OF DISCRETION 71
BOOK II.
I.--THE HAND THAT BECKONED 75
II.--THE ISLES OF ST. MAGDALEN 85
III.--BETWEEN THE SURF AND THE SAND 90
IV.--WHERE THE DEVIL LIVED 101
V.--DEVILRY 109
VI.--THE SEA-MAID 118
VII.--THE GRAVE LADY 122
VIII.--HOW THEY LIVED ON THE CLOUD 126
IX.--THE SICK AND THE DEAD 136
X.--A LIGHT-GIVING WORD 141
XI.--THE LADY'S HUSBAND 149
XII.--THE MAIDEN INVENTED 155
XIII.--WHITE BIRDS; WHITE SNOW; WHITE THOUGHTS 166
XIV.--THE MARRIAGE SCENE 173
BOOK III.
I.--HOW WE HUNTED THE SEALS 183
II.--ONCE MORE THE VISION 188
III.--"LOVE, I SPEAK TO THY FACE" 193
IV.--HOPE BORN OF SPRING 201
V.--TO THE HIGHER COURT 208
VI.--"THE NIGHT IS DARK" 216
VII.--THE WILD WAVES WHIST 227
VIII.--"GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN" 236
IX.--"GOD'S PUPPETS, BEST AND WORST" 249
X.--"DEATH SHRIVE THY SOUL!" 254
XI.--THE RIDDLE OF LIFE 263
XII.--TO CALL A SPIRIT FROM THE VASTY DEEP 271
XIII.--THE EVENING AND THE MORNING 283
THE MERMAID.
