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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LV Grenville had planned his meeting with Tryphena that she might certainly come to him before the knowledge of his previous day's work could reach her. He wanted to be the first to tell her of his broken engagement, and intended that she should leave home and climb Hameldon before news of the event at Blackslade could arrive at Southcombe. This indeed happened, and fortune so far favoured the faithless doctor that he was able to give his own version of the catastrophe and seek to create a particular impression. She started early, skirted the heights, proceeded nigh Kingshead, and presently rested upon a convenient stone above the woodlands that fledge the eastern foothills of the mount. The true mosaic of the forest patchwork, invisible at high noon, appeared in the early morning hour. Each pine made a tower of gloom in the lustrous groves; each budding birch shone like a jewel of emerald set in the hanging woods. The ridges and planes of the forest had not yet merged and swum together. They discovered play and interplay of light thrown horizontally; while the cloud shadows also swept their undulations and exposed, under their purple passing, many a delicate tracery and balanced harmony of the tree-tops that the glittering light concealed. Presently, as the sun ascended, the interwoven shadows, thrown by his earlier beams upon the crown of the wood and the surface of the ferns and boulders, vanished away and, under the more direct downward beat of his glory, these magic passages were no more seen. Tryphena marked the beauties of the morning, for she was afoot very early, and, indeed, found herself an hour ahead of the appointed meeting-time. Nor did she await Hugh Grenville at the boundary stone of ' The Blue Jug, ' as he had directed. She knew the goyle..
| ISBN-13 | 9780907746218 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0907746217 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
| Publisher | Longwood Pr Ltd |
| Published On | 1983-03-01 |
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