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THE RAVENS AND THE ANGELS:

With Other Stories and Parables.

by

MRS. RUNDLE CHARLES

Author of
"The Schoenberg-Cotta Family," &c. &c.







London:
T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row.
Edinburgh; and New York.
1894
All Rights Reserved.




Contents.


   THE RAVENS AND THE ANGELS,                      7

   ECCE <DW25>,                                     33

   THE COTTAGE BY THE CATHEDRAL,                  59

   THE UNKNOWN ARCHITECT OF THE MINSTER,          69

   ONLY THE CRYPT,                                74

   THE SEPULCHRE AND THE SHRINE,                  80

   THE CATHEDRAL CHIMES,                          91

   THE RUINED TEMPLE,                             98

   THE CLOCK-BELL AND THE ALARM-BELL,            106

   THE BLACK SHIP,                               109

   THE ISLAND AND THE MAIN LAND,                 125

   THE JEWEL OF THE ORDER OF THE KING'S OWN,     137

   THE ACORN,                                    148

   PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A FERN,             153

   THORNS AND SPINES,                            158

  