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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: every step on the stairs has been traversed and tired of, when, instead of the heart's beat, there is but an upbraiding voice, when it is no longer with one but from one that concealment is needed, then the illicit passion is its own Nemesis, then nothing were ever drearier, wearier, more anxious, or more fatiguing than its devious paths become, and they seem to hold the sated wanderer in a labyrinth of which he knows, and knowing hates, every wind, and curve, and coil, yet out of which it seems to him he will never make his way back again into the light of wholesome day. CHAPTER V. That same night that the Lady Joan drew her yellow skirts through the ballroom crowds, and drew her lover behind it, to the admiration and approbation of all who beheld her, a sledge, furiously driven, was crossing one of the vast level tracks of Russia in the teeth of a storm of snow and wind. For hour after hour there was no break in the wide white track save when, at some wretched group of hovels or some small walled hamlec, the steaming and half- frantic horses were changed. The frozen plains stretched all around, dotted here and there by the black stems of stunted pines. The snow fell ceaselessly. Now and then through the roar of the wind there came as the wind lulled for a moment the sound of a wolf-pack baying afar off. The sledge went on, the horses tore their way through drift and hurricane. Every now and then a voice from within cried into the bitter air, Faster faster for the love of heaven The voice was feeble and feverish. We had better stop, Fedorivanovitch, urged a stronger voice tenderly; but the other always answered, No, no?on on And the voice was obeyed, for it had the sound of death in it. The road was lost sight of; all tracks were obliterated; even ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217819244 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217819249 |
| Weight | 0.64 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 192 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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