The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling — Read

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With a heart of furious fancies, / Whereof I am commander; / With a burning spear and a horse of air, / To the wilderness I wander. / With a knight of ghosts and shadows / I summoned am to tourney- / Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end, / Methinks it is no journey. / -_Tom a' Bedlam's Song_.

"Good-bye, Bess; I promised you fifty. Here's a hundred-all that I got for my furniture from Beeton. That will keep you in pretty frocks for some time. You've been a good little girl, all things considered, but you've given me and Torpenhow a fair amount of trouble."

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