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The Day Boy and the Night Girl (The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris) by George MacDonald (1882)The
Day Boy and the Night Girl
(The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris)
by George MacDonald
1882


Contents:
I. Watho
II. Aurora
III. Vesper
IV. Photogen
V. Nycteris
VI. How Photogen Grew
VII. How Nycteris Grew
VIII. The Lamp
IX. Out
X. The Great Lamp
XI. The Sunset
XII. The Garden
XIII. Something Quite New
XIV. The Sun
XV. The Coward Hero
XVI. The Evil Nurse
XVII. Watho's Wolf
XVIII. Refuge
XIX. The Werewolf
XX. All Is Well.
[Translations of personal names in the story.]


I. Watho
THERE was once a witch who desired to know everything. But the wiser a witch is,
the harder she knocks her head against the wall when she comes to it. Her name
was Watho, and she had a wolf in her mind. She cared for nothing in itself --
only for knowing it. She was not naturally cruel, but the wolf had made her
cruel.
She was tall and graceful, with a white skin, red hair, and black eyes, which
had a red fire in them. She was straight and strong, but now and then would fall
bent together, shudder, and sit for a moment with her head turned over her
shoulder, as if the wolf had got out of her mind onto her back.


II. Aurora
THIS witch got two ladies to visit her. One of them belonged to the court, and
her husband had been sent on a far and difficult embassy. The other was a young
widow whose husband had lately died, and who had since lost her sight. Watho
lodged them in different parts of her castle, and they did not know of each
other's existence.
The castle stood on the side of a hill sloping gently down into a arrow valley,