Starvecrow Farm Classic Reprint

Author : Stanley Weyman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484409216
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Starvecrow Farm (Classic Reprint) written by Stanley Weyman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Starvecrow Farm And Henrietta looked forward. The dull grey line of coast, quickly passing into the invisible, on which she turned her back, stood for her past the sun-kissed peaks and blue dis tances of F urness, which her fancy still mirrored, though the Cartmel shore now hid them, stood for the future. To those heights, beautified by haze and distance, her heart went out, finding in them the true image of the coming life, the true foretype of those joys, tender and mysterious, to which she was hastening. The past, which she was abandoning, she knew a cold home in the house of an unfeeling sister-in-law and a brother who when he was not hunting was tipsy - that, and the prospect of an unlovely marriage with a man who horror - had had one wife already, stood for the past. The future she did not know; but hope painted it from her brightest palette, and the girl's eyes filled, her lips quivered, her heart strained towards the sympathy and love that were henceforth to be hers - towards the happiness which she had set out to seek, and that now for certain could not escape her. As the postchaise lumbered heavily up the rough paved groyne that led from the sands she shook from head to foot. At last her feet were set upon the land beautiful. And save for the compact which her self-respect had imposed upon her companion, she must have given way, she must have Opened all her heart, thrown herself upon his breast and wept tears of tender anticipation. She controlled herself. As it happened, they drew in their heads at the same time, and his eyes - they were handsome eyes - met hers. 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.