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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. How long I slept I know not, but, rising to open the window for a breath of air, I was aware of an extraordinary sight. It was moonlight, perfect and clear, the orb riding at ease in a blue vault dotted with stars, the wain and the pole star well denned, and below them all the lawn in front of my windows occupied by a gathering crowd. It was the crowd of my everyday experience? a plump old gentleman newly arrived at the hotel, and probably going to-morrow morning to see the sunrise as so many had gone before him; my amiable and pushful acquaintance closely watching his movements; a diplomat home on leave; a nurse, with her infant charges shouldering their shovels. It was an odd sort of assemblage, especially for the time of night. What could it mean ? My curiosity was now thoroughly excited; I left the room by the open window only to find the crowd much larger than I at first supposed. The entire beach beyond the grounds was filling up in precisely the same manner as the garden. It was not only the hotel people now; it was the inhabitants of the island generally, as I had learned to knowthem or to notice them in my daily excursions. I recognized the stationer who had sold me the ordnance map; a self-centred couple for whose sake I had been compelled to change the direction of a favourite walk; the solitary policeman on the beat. The curious thing was that all these people were accompanied by their human belongings, as though they were going somewhere to pass muster. Thus the policeman, though still apparently on duty, was followed by a procession which was his wife and family or nothing. The stationer was similarly attended?and so on. Another point worthy of notice was that they were all silent, and exceedingly grave in demeanour without being sad. They took their ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217677677 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217677673 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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