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Title: The Quickening

Author: Francis Lynde

Illustrator: E. M. Ashe

Release Date: December 19, 2005 [EBook #17357]

Language: English

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Illustration: Tom was fronting the firebrand Dabney like a man.

THE QUICKENING

By

FRANCIS LYNDE
Author of
The Grafters,
The Master of Appleby,
etc., etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY E.M. ASHE

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1906
Francis Lynde

March

PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS
BROOKLYN, N.Y.

To My Mother

CHAPTER PAGE

I Bethesda 1

II The Cedars of Lebanon 11

III Of the Fathers Upon the Children 21

IV The Newer Exodus 25

V The Dabneys of Deer Trace 32

VI Blue Blood and Red 44

VII The Prayer of the Righteous 57

VIII The Backslider 65

IX The Race to the Swift 75

X The Shadow of the Rock 90

XI The Trumpet-Call 99

XII The Iron in the Forge Fire 107

XIII A Sister of Charity 116

XIV On Jordan's Bank 124

XV Noel 140

XVI The Bubble, Reputation 145

XVII Absalom, My Son! 160

XVIII The Awakening 172

XIX Issachar 188

XX Dry Wells 201

XXI Gilgal 216

XXII Love 226

XXIII Tarred Ropes 242

XXIV The Under-Depths