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TANGLEWOOD TALES

Intent upon the quick contagion of flame

The glow rests first upon those faces eagerly
searching the depths of the fire facing page
Flickering gleams along the rows of books.
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Frontispiece

"My little heart beat fast and faster facing page "Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls" facing page

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The short December afternoon was already fading facing page There is the material for drama in the career of almost every person whom we know . Began the evening by reading aloud facing page

Even then the pretty bellows.

The Christmas tree in a glow of light

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"In their best dresses and their best faces

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Adder's-Tongues

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He held the worn book almost reverently 76

He read the first page carefully, and with a growing confusion of thought facing page facing page

Under some spell of silence

Through a gate in the city walls facing page
Childhood contains in the germ all that
maturity ever develops

The cheerful notes of the fire, singing lustily
With leaf for tree, and flower for stalk..
Hidden flowers

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Dear faces of the household

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No more welcome guest ever comes under our roof

The rush of little feet

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A day of mist and rain

Gives himself up to dreams

Wrapped all visible things in a white mist of obscurity.

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It is a veritable new world which stretches away, white and silent, toward the horizon facing page 145 158, 159

"Mamma, please play that'

Of all men the most unlucky.

The cuckoo flew out of his little door

“March winds are rising”

Tail piece - Bloodroots

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There is a soft glow on her face.

Flowers of June

The supreme charm of a atmosphere

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The glowing embers sent a warm thrill into our very hearts facing page facing page

A clear, cold winter's morning

The little village in the hollow

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Great thoughts rise out of the silent deep
Spring out of the hidden places of the soil.
A village remote

One finds in solitude only that which he
takes into it.

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Beautiful Magdalen tower in the distance facing page 236

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Where the apple blossoms still rain the sweetness of perennial summer

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There is no symbol of permanency so impressive as a mountain range facing page 261

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