Epigraph
Dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set,
and blew “Child Roland to the dark tower came.”
—Robert Browning
Dedication
TO
W. W. D. H.
Epigraph
“God forbid that I should do this thing.
If our time be come, let us die manfully for our brethren
And let us not stain our honour.”
I Maccabees, ix, 10.