[A] By courtesy of Messrs. W. S. Gottsberger & Co.

[B] By courtesy of "The Catholic World."




ILLUSTRATIONS, BOOK I.


The Yule-log Glow Frontispiece.

Sonia

The Cavalier From France

My Little Sister Mary




_A Tale Spoken by a Graybeard Out of the East._

"Gracious powers! Perhaps you _are_ a hundred years old, now I think of
it! You look more than a hundred. Yes, you may be a thousand years old
for what I know."

_Thackeray._