St. Elmo

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James Nisbet & Company Limited, 1899 - Fiction - 482 pages
A slender girl of twelve years' growth steadied a pail of water on her head with both dimpled arms thrown up in ancient classic Caryatides attitude; and pausing a moment beside the spring stood fronting the great golden dawn-watching for the first level ray of the coming sun and chanting the prayer of Habakkuk.

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Section 1
3
Section 2
8
Section 3
13

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