Chapter I: Front Matter

THE SILVER POPPY

_A NOVEL_

BY ARTHUR STRINGER

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
MCMIII

COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published, August, 1903_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT 1

II. THE SPIRIT OF THE CITY 18

III. AN INTERLUDE OF ENLIGHTENMENT 27

IV. THE WORLD AND THE WOMAN 33

V. BETWEEN BLOSSOM AND FRUIT 48

VI. THE TWO VOICES 58

VII. THE APRIL OF LOVE 65

VIII. LIFE'S IRON CROWN 80

IX. THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODDESS 86

X. BROKEN LINKS 93

XI. THE STONIER UPLANDS 103

XII. EROS THE RELUCTANT 111

XIII. THE FETTERED RELEASE 120

XIV. THE FIRE IN THE CLEARING 130

XV. THE MILL AND ITS GRIST 144

XVI. REINFORCEMENTS 157

XVII. INEFFECTUAL FLUTTERS 164

XVIII. THE FULNESS OF LIFE 170

XIX. WAS EVER POETESS THUS MADE? 182

XX. A POWER NOT HERSELF 188

XXI. THE SIGNS OF BLIGHT 192

XXII. THE BLOT ON THE 'SCUTCHEON 203

XXIII. TATTERED COLORS 212

XXIV. ROSES AND THORNS 224

XXV. TARNISHED GOLD 235

XXVI. AUTUMN SUNLIGHT 241

XXVII. THE SCARS OF SLAVERY 248

XXVIII. THE ALTAR OF EMINENCE 257

XXIX. DESINAT IN PISCEM, MULIER FORMOSA SUPERNE 269

XXX. THE WORLD AND THE MAN 282

THE SILVER POPPY