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"PRELUDE. AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates' Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with which the past winter has strewn this shore. Though almost all trace of their presence is already gone, yet their mere memory lends to these cliffs a human interest. Where a stranded vessel lies, thither all steps converge, so long as one plank remains upon another. There centres the emotion. All else is but the setting, and the eye sweeps with indifference the line of unpeopled rocks. They are barren, till the imagination has tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay. The ocean provides the scenery and properties of a perpetual tragedy, but the interest arrives with the performers. Till then the shores remain vacant, like the great conventional armchairs of the French drama, that wait for Rachel to come and die. Yet as I ride along this fashionable avenue in August, and watch the procession of the young and fair,-as I look at stately houses, from each of which has gone forth almost within my memory a funeral or a bride,-then [...]".
| ISBN-13 | 9781537064178 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1537064177 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $8.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 136 pages |
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| Published On | 2016-09-12 |
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