Author : Maurice Thompson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332452036
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Book Synopsis A Fortnight of Folly (Classic Reprint) by : Maurice Thompson
Download or read book A Fortnight of Folly (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Fortnight of Folly Viewing the large building from any favorable point in the valley, itlooked like a huge white b: rd sitting with outstretched wings on the gray rock far up against the tender blue sky. All around it the Forests were thick and green, the ravines deep and gloomy and the rocks tumbled into fantastic heaps. When you reached it, which was after a Whole day of hard zig-zag climbing, you found it a rather plain three-story house, whose broad verandas were worried with a mass ofjig-saw fancies and whose windows glared at you between wide Open green Venetian shutters. Everything look new, almost raw, from the stumps of fresh-cut trees on the lawn and the rope swings and long benches, upon which the paint was scarcely dry, to the resonant floor of the spacious halls and the cedar-fragrant hand-rail of the stairway. There were springs among the rocks. Here the water trickled out with a red gleam of iron oxide, there it sparkled with an excess of car bonic acid, and yonder it bubbled up all the more limpid and clear on account of the offen sive sulphuretted hydrogen it was bringing forth. Masses of fern, great cushions of cool moss and tangles of blooming shrubs and Vines fringed the sides of the little ravines down which the spring-streams sang their way to the silver thread of a river in the valley. It was altogether a dizzy perch, a strange, in convenient, out-of-the-way spot for a summer hotel. You reached it all out of breath, con fused as to the points of the compass and dis appointed, in every sense of the word, with What at first glance struck you as a colossal pretense, empty, raw, vulgar, loud a great trap into which you had been inveigled by an eloquent hand-bill! Hotel Helicon, as a name for the place, was considered a happy one. It had come to the proprietor, as if in a dream, one day as he sat smoking. He slapped his thigh with his hand and sprang to his feet. The word that went so smoothly with hotel, as he fancied, had no special meaning in his mind, for the gas man had never been guilty of classical lore study, but it furnished a taking alliteration. 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.
