THE STAR DREAMER

BOOK III

Come down ... from yonder mountain heights.

And come, for Love is of the valley, come,

For Love is of the valley, come thou down!

Tennyson (The Princess.)

CHAPTER I
THE LITTLE MASTER OF BINDON

She played about with slight and sprightly talk,

And vivid smiles, and faintly venom’d points

Of slander, glancing here and grazing there.