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Title: The Mermaid
A Love Tale

Author: Lily Dougall

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Language: English

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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