The Child of the Dawn
THE CHILD OF THE DAWN By ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE [Greek: edu ti tharsaleais ton makron teiein bion elpisin] Author of THE UPTON LETTERS, FROM A COLLEGE WINDOW, BESIDE STILL WATERS, THE ALTAR FIRE, THE SCHOOLMASTER, AT LARGE, THE GATE OF DEATH, THE SILENT ISLE, JOHN RUSKIN, LEAVES OF THE TREE, CHILD OF THE DAWN, PAUL THE MINSTREL 1912 To MY BEST AND DEAREST FRIEND HERBERT FRANCIS WILLIAM TATHAM IN LOVE AND HOPE
flagrantly set with the expression of one who, having something
determinate to say, will--yet--say it, somewhere, sometime, somehow,
though the skies fall and all the waters of the earth dry up.
Then like the dart of a bird, she flashed to her father's door and
opened it.
"Father!" she whispered. "Father!"
"Yes," answered the half-muffled, pillowy voice. "What is it?"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you something that happened once--down in
Indo-China," whispered little Eve Edgarton. "Once when you were away,"
she confided breathlessly, "I pulled a half-drowned coolie out of a
canal."
"Well, what of it?" asked her father a bit tartly.
"Oh, nothing special," said little Eve Edgarton, "except that his skin
was like yellow parchment! And sand-paper! And old plaster!"
Without further ado then, she turned away, and, except for the single
ecstatic episode of making the four hundred muffins for breakfast,
resumed her pulseless role of being just--little Eve Edgarton.
As for Barton, the subsequent morning hours brought sleep and sleep
THE CHILD OF THE DAWN By ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON FELLOW OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE [Greek: edu ti tharsaleais ton makron teiein bion elpisin] Author of THE UPTON LETTERS, FROM A COLLEGE WINDOW, BESIDE STILL WATERS, THE ALTAR FIRE, THE SCHOOLMASTER, AT LARGE, THE GATE OF DEATH, THE SILENT ISLE, JOHN RUSKIN, LEAVES OF THE TREE, CHILD OF THE DAWN, PAUL THE MINSTREL 1912 To MY BEST AND DEAREST FRIEND HERBERT FRANCIS WILLIAM TATHAM IN LOVE AND HOPE