A Chance Acquaintance

Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484687126
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book A Chance Acquaintance (Classic Reprint) written by William Dean Howells and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Chance Acquaintance Greatest happiness just to have that prospect of the St. Lawrence and Quebec. The sun shone with a warm yellow light on the Upper Town, with its gir dle of gray wall, and on the red flag that drowsed above the citadel, and was a friendly lustre on the tinned roofs of the Lower Town while away off to the south and east and west wandered the purple hills and the farmlit plains in such dewy shadow and effulgence as would have been enough to make the heaviest heart glad. Near at hand the river was busy with every kind of craft, and in the distance was mysterious with silvery vapors; little breaths of haze, like an ethereal colorless flame, exhaled from its surface, and it all glowed with a lovely inner radiance. In the middle distance a black Ship was heaving anchor and setting sail, and the voice Of the seamen came soft and sad and yet Wildly hopeful to the dreamy ear of the young girl, whose soul at once went round the world before the ship, and then made haste back again to the promenade of the Saguenay boat. She sat leaning forward a little with her hands fallen into her lap, letting her unmastered thoughts play as they would in memo ries and hopes around the consciousness that She was the happiest girl in the world, and blest beyond desire or desert. TO have left home as she had done, equipped for a Single day at Niagara, and then to have come adventurously on, by grace Of her cousin's wardrobe, as it were, to Montreal and Que bec; to be now going up the Saguenay, and finally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.