Excerpt from Helen He took a silver franc from his pocket and held it out in his hand. The stocky little figure did not move. He advanced a few steps, his arm ex tended. Her sheep, alarmed, scattered down the hillside, and still she did not move. He put the franc gently in her hand, smiling. The hand closed over it, mechanically, like a trap, but the face remained stolid. Then, suddenly, possessed by some unknown emotion, she turned and ran, as if pursued by one of the wolves which winter drives down from the mountains. He ...
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Excerpt from Helen He took a silver franc from his pocket and held it out in his hand. The stocky little figure did not move. He advanced a few steps, his arm ex tended. Her sheep, alarmed, scattered down the hillside, and still she did not move. He put the franc gently in her hand, smiling. The hand closed over it, mechanically, like a trap, but the face remained stolid. Then, suddenly, possessed by some unknown emotion, she turned and ran, as if pursued by one of the wolves which winter drives down from the mountains. He watched her orange-colored scarf till it disappeared among thechestnut trees, then pushed on westward through Ventimiglia. He had left the steamer at Genoa m the early morning and taken the first train for Nice. But at Bordighera, tired Of dust and smoke and tunnels, he had escaped from his overcrowded compart ment, resolved to walk, at least as far as Mentone. After the confinement Of the voyage the freedom of the long white road, winding through town and village between the mountains and the sea, ap pealed to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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