The Cortlandts Of Washington Square

Author : Janet Ayer Fairbank
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230241739
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Cortlandts of Washington Square written by Janet Ayer Fairbank and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... the cortlandts of washington square chapter I news A Ijttle girl of ten years was clearing the snow from a path leading to the side door of a farm-house so small that it barely emerged from its brilliant setting. Its walls, a soiled yellow-white, poked out of the drifts with an air of innocent disreputability, and its long roof dipped deep into the solid snow. The child put an amazing amount of effort into her work, and the feathery stuff flew from her wooden shovel, in wide and glittering parabolas, as she finished each stroke. She did not pause until she reached the gate; then she straightened her slim back experimentally, and breathed deep of the frosty air. She looked critically back at the cleared path and dug her shovel into the deeper snow outside the fence, but this was heavy work, and, moreover, not hers, so after a tentative gouge or two, she gave it up and retreated to the gate, which stood open, sagging on primitive hinges. With a wide sweep of her mittened hand she cleared the top rail of its encumbrance of snow, and swung herself up to perch there. She sat, a funny, hunched little figure in a tight jacket, and a full and too short skirt which betrayed to a censorious world extraordinarily knobby long legs. She was a red-haired child, with an eager wedge of a face that took no color from the keen wind off the New York hills; against the pallor of her cheeks her lips showed brilliantly red, and her eyes gloomed deep and ceremonious above an impudent nose. On the whole, she looked rather a difficult little girl; the old gate creaked, protestingly. She gazed out indifferently at the sharp winter landscape.... Yesterday in church the minister had talked of missionaries.... Yellow sands and black skins, across wide and tumultuous...