Gabriel . and . the Hour . Book
Roses of St. Elizabeth Series
Evaleen.Stein.
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GABRIEL AND THE HOUR BOOK
Roses of St. Elizabeth Series
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.
[Illustration: _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
CHAPTER PAGE
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
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein
- 2: That Gabriel Viaud was a peasant lad
- 3: To be trained for the brotherhood
- 4: The Abbot had several reasons for this refusal
- 5: For he had a rather unruly temper
- 6: Gabriel took down one of the books
- 7: And then as Gabriel went to work
- 8: Gabriel could not help but see
- 9: Here suddenly Gabriel remembered his bowl
- 10: And in walked the Abbot himself
- 11: There was much for Gabriel to do also
- 12: Yet Gabriel was very industrious
- 13: Gabriel was quick and eager to learn
- 14: It seems that the Count Pierre de Bouchage
- 15: Brother Stephen finished the last page of the beautiful book
- 16: He looked over the parchment carefully
- 17: Meantime Brother Stephen worked industriously
- 18: And so Gabriel left the Abbey and took his way home
- 19: Replacing the silken wrappings
- 20: Just as Brother Stephen had done
- 21: And Breton gentlemen of the highest rank
- 22: His people had become poorer and poorer
- 23: The Abbot was greatly surprised to see him
- 24: The next morning the messenger rode to the Viaud farm
- 25: The troubadour began at once to read
- 26: He found peasant Viaud awaiting him there
- 27: Skilfully guided them into the Viaud sheepfold
- 28: Arranged their little wooden shoes on the hearth
- 29: Peasant Viaud looked fairly dazed
- 30: Is this the farm of the peasant Viaud
- 31: The king and queen lingered in Bretagne
- 32: Gabriel still gathered the wild flowers every day