Gabriel and the Hour Book

Each 1 vol., small quarto, illustrated and decorated in colour. $1.00 The Roses of Saint Elizabeth By JANE SCOTT WOODRUFF Gabriel and the Hour Book By EVALEEN STEIN The Enchanted Automobile Translated from the French by MARY J. SAFFORD Pussy-Cat Town By MARION AMES TAGGART L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building BOSTON, MASS. Gabriel Roses of St. Elizabeth Series Gabriel and the Hour Book BY Evaleen Stein ILLUSTRATED IN COLOURS BY Adelaide Everhart L. C. Page & Company Boston Mcmvi Copyright, 1906, by L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Incorporated) All rights reserved First Impression, July, 1906 COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A. TO My friend Caroline H. Griffiths CONTENTS I. The Little Colour Grinder 1 II. Brother Stephen's Inspiration 19 III. Gabriel Interviews the Abbot 35 IV. The Hour Book 49 V. The Count's Tax 65 VI. Gabriel's Prayer 74 VII. The Book Goes to Lady Anne 89 VIII. Lady Anne Writes to the King 99 IX. The King's Messenger 116 X. Gabriel's Christmas 136 XI. The King's Illuminator 162 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Gabriel Frontispiece "He saw the Abbot walking up and down" 38 "Dreaming of all the beautiful things he meant to paint" 59 "Taking down the book . . . he unwrapped and unclasped it" 95 "Began slowly to turn over the pages" 105 "He passed a little peasant boy" 142 Gabriel and the Hour Book THE LITTLE COLOUR GRINDER T was a bright morning of early April, many hundred years ago; and through all the fields and meadows of Normandy the violets and cuckoo-buds were just beginning to peep through the tender green of the young grass. The rows of tall poplar-trees that everywhere, instead of fences, served to mark off the farms of the country folk, waved in the spring wind like great, pale green plumes; and among their branches the earliest robins and field-fares were gaily singing as a little boy stepped out from a small thatched cottage standing among the fields, and took his way along the highroad. That Gabriel Viaud was a peasant lad, any one could have told from the blouse of blue homespun, and the wooden shoes which he wore; and that he felt the gladness of the April time could easily be known by the happy little song he began to sing to himself, and by the eager delight with which he…