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Title: Secret Bread

Author: F. Tennyson Jesse

Release Date: September 11, 2005 [EBook #16683]

Language: English

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SECRET BREAD

BY

F. TENNYSON JESSE

Author Of "The Milky Way,"
"Beggars On Horseback," Etc.

"_Bread eaten in secret_..."

New York
George H. Doran Company

Copyright, 1917,
By George H. Doran Company

Printed In The United States Of America

TO

EUSTACE TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT JESSE
MY FATHER AND FRIEND

CONTENTS

BOOK I--SOWING

Prologue

CHAPTER

I High Adventures in a Farmyard
II The Mill
III The Kitchen
IV Pagan Pastoral
V Head of the House
VI Reactions
VII The Chapel
VIII Seed-Time
IX Fresh Pasture
X Hilaria
XI The Place on the Moor
XII Some Ambitions and an Announcement
XIII The Wrestling
XIV The Wind upon the Grass-Field

BOOK II--GROWTH

CHAPTER

I A Family Album
II What Men Live By
III First Furrow
IV The Shadow at the Window
V Lull Before Storm
VI The Bush-Beating
VII The Heart of the Cyclone
VIII New Horizons
IX Hidden Springs
X Blind Steps
XI Glamour
XII Sheaves
XIII The Stile
XIV A Letter
XV Blown Husks
XVI The Grey World
XVII The Cliff and the Valley
XVIII The Immortal Moment

BOOK III--RIPENING

CHAPTER

I Under-Currents
II The Passage
III Phoebe Pays Toll
IV The Discovering of Nicky
V Centripetal Movement
VI The Nation and Nicky
VII Paradise Cottage Again
VIII What Nicky Did
IX Judith's White Night
X Lone Trails
XI Ways of Love
XII Georgie

BOOK IV--THE SHADOW OF THE SCYTHE

CHAPTER

I Questions of Vision
II Autumn
III Bodies of Fire
IV The New Judith
V The Parson's Philosophy
VI "Something Must Come to All of Us..."
VII Earth

BOOK V--HARVEST

CHAPTER

I The Four-Acre
II Archelaus, Nicky, Jim
III The Letters
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