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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: mendous storm too. If I meet with an adventure, all the better. Why, it's a real Walpurgis Night. I shall feel like a witch And she looked like one as she started up with her new resolution shining out through mischievous eyes and oddly compressed lips She was young. She had health, inexhaustible spirits, and energy. Her own ideas were apt to interest her. She was in that state of idleness in which Satan is proverbially said to be devising mischief still to cause our downfall. And she wanted the book. These are the reasons, if reasons they be, why shortly after a figure, armed with an umbrella and Well wrapped in a waterproof, the hood drawn up snugly over a close little turban, ran lightly down the broad old-fashioned staircase, with a gay disregard for the possible consternation of the worthy Phipps, should she know of the wild and wayward exploit, and gently opening the massive door, sprang with a sense of rare exhilaration and delight out into the wind and rain. CHAPTER II. Tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door; but't is enough, 't will serve. Borneo and Juliet. OBBIDDEN fruit being ever to our fallen natures the richest and ripest and sweetest, Miss Doane experienced vivid satisfaction in executing her fantastic scheme. She hilariously floundered off and on the narrow sidewalk, always insecure, and on this memorable night rendered unusually treacherous by occasional streams of running water and deep hidden pools, she joyously welcomed the cold rain-drops as they beat persistently against her cheek, and was intoxicated with the pleasure of struggling with all her might against the constant efforts of the wind to seize and whirl away her umbrella, efforts which she interpreted as the playful frolics of a friend, so jovial was her ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217268264 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217268269 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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