Revolutionary Stories Retold From St Nicholas Classic Reprint

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Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book St. Nicholas, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from St. Nicholas, Vol. 6 I have confidence in God. Those who do no ill need fear none, returned the child, calmly. You shall come with me, continued the cap tain, suspiciously; so fine a boy must not grow up a rebel. I shall dedicate you to the service of the king and the church. Jean made no answer, riding on with his captors, apparently in submissive composure; but the vigi lant little fellow, quick in expedients, contrived to fall back gradually, till, when the dismounted troops, painfully climbing, were half-way up a steep ascent, Jean was among the hindmost. A brook wound round the base of the hill, and Jean knew that near the stream was one of those caverns, common in a country of volcanic formation, the entrance to which was concealed by thick, clustering bushes. Seizing an opportune moment, the active boy turned his pony, dashed down into the brook, leaped from his steed, and ran into the cavern. Some minutes elapsed before the more clumsy sol diers could descend; when they reached the stream. The pony was scrambling homeward over the rocks, and no trace of his rider was visible. Little Jean tremblingly crouched in his covert during their brief, vain search; but soon, eager for a larger prey, the pursuers returned to join the rest of the band. When the last echoes had died away, and only the brook's gurgle was audible in the stillness, Jean ventured from his retreat, aware that the distance had been increased, and the time for rescue les sened by his capture; but his Childhood's steadfast faith never dreamed of failure; prayer and act were one, as lightly leaping from bowlder to bowlder, by intricate windings about pinnacle and crest, here following the bed of a mountain stream, there swinging himself by gnarled roots over deep chasms, - the intrepid boy hasted breathlessly on. 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.