The spirit of the pines
By: by Margaret Morse.
Contributors: Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; Riverside Press
Published: February 1906
Place of publication: Boston; Cambridge [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
First sentence: The Meeting of the Ways

"You surely cannot refuse a traveler shelter from so pitiless a storm!"

"You surely cannot intrude when I tell you that I wish to be alone!"

"I regret forcing myself upon your unwilling hospitality, but the water is rising rapidly, and I am in danger of drowning."

Outside in the rain and darkness stood the man, his coat-collar buttoned tightly about his throat, his hat pulled over his eyes. Inside, framed by the low doorway, the slender black-robed figure of the girl was silhouetted against the light.
The situation would be tragic if it were not so humersou," the man resumed. Then he broke off, shaken by a violent attack of coughing.
Description: The author has sought to make beauty and gentleness the chief feature of this love story. With New Hampshire as a background, she has woven a pretty tale around Constance North, who has fled to the woods to find solace for the loss of an adopted daughter (2008 Note: it was an adopted son); and David Leighton, who is on his way to Colorado in search of health.

Description from The Bookman, An Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Life, Volume XXIII, Dodd, Mead and Col, New York, March 1906 - August 1906.
Table of contents: value: I. The Meeting of the Ways.....................1; value: II. Letters ............................................13; value: III. "Light Between the Trees"..................99