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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: CHAPTER II THE WAGGONS The evening was pitch-dark: star and moon were quenched in grey rain-clouds?gray they would have been by day, by night they looked sable. Malone was not a man given to close observation of Nature; her changes passed, for the most part, unnoticed by him: he could walk miles on the most varying April day, and never see the beautiful dallying of earth and heaven; never mark when a sunbeam kissed the hill-tops, making them smile clear in green light, or when a shower wept over them, hiding their crests with the low-hanging, dishevelled tresses of a cloud. He did noti therefore, care to contrast the sky as it now appeared?a muffled, streaming vault, all black, save where, towards the east, the furnaces of Stilbro' ironworks threw a tremulous lurid shimmer on the horizon?with the same sky on an unclouded frosty night. He did not trouble himself to ask where the constellations and the planets were gone, or to regret the ' black-blue' serenity of the air-ocean which those white islets stud; and which another ocean, of heavier and denser element, now rolled below and concealed. He just doggedly pursued his way, leaningalittle forward as he walked, and wearing his hat on the back of his head, as his Irish manner was. ' Tramp, tramp, ' he went along the causeway, where the road boasted the privilege of such an accommodation; 'splash, splash, ' through the mire-filled cart-ruts, where the flags were exchanged for soft mud. He looked but for certain land-marks: the spire of Briarfield church; further on, the lights of' Redhouse.' This was an inn; andwhen he reached it, the glow of a fire through a half-curtained window, a vision of glasses on a round table, and of revellers on an oaken settle, had nearly drawn aside the curate from his course. He thought longing...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217047999 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217047998 |
| Weight | 1.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 In |
| List Price | $29.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 454 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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