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Title: Changing Winds
A Novel

Author: St. John G. Ervine

Release Date: September 4, 2009 [eBook #29902]

Language: English

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CHANGING WINDS

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_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

_Novels._
MRS. MARTIN'S MAN.
ALICE AND A FAMILY.

_Short Stories._
EIGHT O'CLOCK AND OTHER STUDIES.

_Plays._
FOUR IRISH PLAYS
MIXED MARRIAGE.
THE MAGNANIMOUS LOVER.
THE CRITICS.
THE ORANGEMAN.
JANE CLEGG.
JOHN FERGUSON.

_Political Study._
SIR EDWARD CARSON AND THE ULSTER MOVEMENT.

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CHANGING WINDS

A Novel

by

ST. JOHN G. ERVINE

New York
The Macmillan Company
1917

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1917,
by St. John G. Ervine.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1917. Reprinted
March, twice, May, twice, July, August, September, November, 1917.

TO

THE MEMORY OF RUPERT BROOKE

The translations from the Gaelic on pages 77 and 78 were made by the
late P. H. Pearse, who was executed in Dublin for his part in the Easter
Rebellion. The translations appeared in _New Ireland_, and I am indebted
to the Editor of that review for permission to reprint them here.

THE FIRST BOOK

OF

CHANGING WINDS

There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter, And lit by the
rich skies, all day. And after, Frost, with a gesture, stays the winds
that dance And wandering loveliness. He leaves a white, Unbroken glory,
a gathered radiance, A width, a shining peace, under the night.

RUPERT BROOKE.

CHANGING WINDS

THE FIRST CHAPTER

1

It would be absurd to say of Mr. Quinn that he was an ill-tempered man,
but it would also be absurd to say that he was of a mild disposition.
William Henry Matier, a talker by profession and a gardener