East Angels
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ISBN13: 9780217202657
Paperback|9780217202657
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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: one, and much to be preferred to the French frivolity of the title to which she was obliged to answer. But where is Margaret? said Mrs. Rutherford, turning. A third person, who had been looking at the new scene about her?the orange-trees, the palmettoes, the blue water of the Espiritu beyond the low sea-wall, and the fringe of tropical forest on 1'atricio opposite?now stepped from the carriage. I was beginning to think that there had been some change of plan, Mrs. Harold, and that you had not come, said Win- throp, going back to the carriage to assist her. Margaret Harold smiled. Her smile was a very pleasant one; she and Winthrop greeted each other with what seemed like a long-established, though quiet and well-governed, coldness. CHAPTER IV. Later in the evening Mrs. Rutherford was sitting with her nephew on the piazza of her new residence, the little house he had engaged for her use during her stay in Gracias; they were looking at the moonlight on the lagoon. The little residence had but one story, and that story was a second one. It had been built above an old passageway of stone, which had led from the Franciscan monastery down to the monks' landing-place on the shore; the passageway made a turn at a right angle not far from the water, and this angle had been taken possession of by the later architect, who had rested Ins square superstructure solidly on the old walls at the south and west, and had then built a light open arch below to support the two remaining sides, thus securing an elevated position, and a beautiful view of the sea beyond Patricio, at comparatively small expense for his high foundation. An outside stairway of stone, which made a picturesque turn on the way, led up to the door of this abode, and, taken altogether, it was an odd and...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217202657 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217202659 |
| Weight | 1.57 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.09 In |
| List Price | $29.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 490 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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