... Along the mountain-side, the evening wind rises. The swell and beat of it among the rocks and fern, as the crags catch it, echo it, and throw it back reverberate, are as the sound of marching feet.... I hear it in the tread--irresistible, inexorable--of an avenging Humanity. The living and the dead are there, and in their hands they bear both Doom and Comforting. MARY A. WARD [Illustration: text decoration] _Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format._ _Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio._ _Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper._ End of Project Gutenberg's The Book of the Homeless, by Edith Wharton