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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 But, after a few rods, the mare, being ill adapted by nature for racing, slackened her pace; Benedict's irascible mood passed away, giving place to shame and remorse; and Pere Lhery slept soundly. They followed one of the little grass-grown roads called in village parlance traines; a road so narrow that the narrow carriage touched the branches of the trees on both sides, and that Athenais was able to pluck a large bunch of hawthorn by passing her arm, encased in a white glove, through the side window. There are no words to describe the freshness and charm of those little tortuous paths which wind capriciously in and out under the never-failing arbors of foliage, revealing at each turn fresh depths of shadow, ever greener and more mysterious. When the noonday sun burns even to its roots the tall, dense grass of the fields, when the insects buzz noisily and the quail amorously clucks in the furrows, coolness and silence seem to take refuge in the traines. You may walk an hour there without hearing other sounds than the flight of a blackbird alarmed by your approach, or the leap of a little green frog, gleaming like an emerald, who was sleeping in his cabin of interlaced rushes. Even yonder ditch contains a whole world of inhabitants, a whole forest of plants; its limpid water flows noiselessly over the clay, casting off its impuritie and kisses gently the watercress, balsam and hepatic? the banks; the water-moss, the long grasses cf water ribbons, the hairy, hanging aquatic mosses, qi incessantly in its silent little eddies; the yellow wagtail runs along the sand with a mischievous yet timid air; the clematis and the honeysuckle shade it with leafy arbors where the nightingale hides his nest. In spring it is all flowers and fragrance; in autumn, purple sloes cover t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217733397 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217733395 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 248 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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