A MAID IN ARCADY [Illustration: “I SHALL WRITE AN ADVERTISEMENT MYSELF,” HE SAID.] [Illustration: title page] A MAID IN ARCADY BY RALPH HENRY BARBOUR AUTHOR OF “KITTY OF THE ROSES” “AN ORCHARD PRINCESS” ETC. _With Illustrations by_ FREDERIC J. von RAPP PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1906 COPYRIGHT, 1906 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Published, September, 1906 _Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A._ ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE “I shall write an advertisement myself,” he said _Frontispiece_ The stream sulked in a deep, pellucid pool 10 Who would have thought to find a Grecian goddess under New England skies? 20 Slowly she raised her white arms 23 “I think I have explained matters, don’t you?” 52 “I hope you like my pool?” inquired a voice 61 She was throwing crumbs of bread to the swans 113 She went to him and placed her hands on his shoulders 139 “Will you?” he repeated 213 [Illustration] A MAID IN ARCADY I. The clear water of the little river, in which the willows were mirrored quiveringly, shallowed where a tiny bar of silver-white sand thrust the ripples aside. Thus confined, the stream sulked for a moment in a deep, pellucid pool, and then, with sudden rush and gurgle, swept through a miniature narrows and swirled about the naked roots of the willows. [Illustration: THE STREAM SULKED IN A DEEP, PELLUCID POOL.]