"Another step, and she was in the room" . . . _Frontispiece_
"With the soft tuft of camel hair he blurred against the
peak pale, luminous vapor of new cloud
"He walked up and down, sometimes in the narrow room,
sometimes in the garden"
"'Come, Dragon Wife,' he said, 'come back to our little home'"
"Umè-ko leaned over instantly, staring down into the stream"
"Then a little hand, stealing from a nun's gray sleeve,
slipped into his"