The Ebb Tide Weir Of Hermiston The Great North Road The Joung Chevalier

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484764155
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book The Ebb-Tide Weir of Hermiston Heathercat written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ebb-Tide Weir of Hermiston Heathercat: The Young Chevalier It was late. Long ago the band had broken up and marched musically home, a motley troop Of men and women, merchant-clerks and navy Officers dancing in its wake, arms about waist and crowned with garlands. Long ago darkness and silence had gone from house to house about the tiny pagan city. Only the street-lamps shone on, making a glow-worm halo in the umbrageous alleys, or drawing a tremulous image on the waters Of the port. A sound Of snoring ran among the piles Of lumber by the Government pier. It was wafted ashore from the graceful, clipper-bottomed schooners, where they lay moored close in like dinghies, and their crews were stretched upon the deck under the Open sky or huddled in a rude tent amidst the dis order Of merchandise. But the men under the purao had no thought Of sleep. The same temperature in England would have passed without remark in summer; but it was bitter cold for the South Seas. In animate nature knew it, and the bottle Of cocoa nut Oil stood frozen in every bird-cage house about the island; and the men knew it, and shiv ered. They wore flimsy cotton clothes, the same they had sweated in by day and run the gauntlet Of the tropic showers; and to complete their evil case, they had had no breakfast to mention, less dinner, and no supper at all. 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.