Part 1

THE DRYAD

A Novel

BY JUSTIN HUNTLY McCARTHY

AUTHOR OF "THE LADY OF LOYALTY HOUSE" "THE PROUD PRINCE" "MARJORIE" ETC.

NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS :: MCMV

Copyright, 1905, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved. Published March, 1905.

ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΦΙΛΗΝ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΝ

Most dear, most fair, these pages go To you, who watched this story grow Through days of sun and days of snow, A legend of the Long Ago.

Where Wonder-Wood is all aglow With godlike forms, and far below The bland Athenian breezes blow, The faint Athenian fountains flow.

Take up and read, and reading know How much to you these pages owe Since first we bandied to and fro Sweet fancies, swift to come and go.

J. H. McC.

IX. II. MCMV.

CONTENTS

I. IN THE WONDER-WOOD

II. RAINOUART

III. ARGATHONA

IV. THE MYSTIC ROSE

V. THE SONG OF THE FOREST

VI. LIKE UNTO ADONIS

VII. LOVE IS ENOUGH

VIII. SIMON SPIES

IX. THE DUCHESS OF THEBES

X. SIMON BLOWS OUT HIS LANTERN

XI. THE CATALAN GRAND COMPANY

XII. THE WINDING OF THE HORN

XIII. THE KNIGHT OF ELEUSIS

XIV. THE TRIUMPH OF THEBES