This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...forget the whole affair. To be sullen about what? Hadn't she scalded the Saint? What more could any man's wife do? Delissa argued thus with herself, going about all the while with a dead weight in her bosom and her feet like lead. Yet she cried no more, and ceased asking Nicholas to forgive her. She cooked during this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...forget the whole affair. To be sullen about what? Hadn't she scalded the Saint? What more could any man's wife do? Delissa argued thus with herself, going about all the while with a dead weight in her bosom and her feet like lead. Yet she cried no more, and ceased asking Nicholas to forgive her. She cooked during this week in a way that would have choked an ostrich. But her husband swallowed doggedly whatever was placed before him. This gave him a return of heart-burn, and heart-burn increased his ill temper considerably; but he said next to nothing. The days passed heavily over them both. It was the early May. The snows had long melted; the ice was gone; the rivers flowed smoothly down to the sea. The flowers were white and blue along the sunny banks. The sap began to stir in the roots of the forest, the buds to swell, and the leaves to unfold once more. The air was warm, like breath; the breezes blew lightly over the earth, and the cries of birds passing again to the north dropped down through the sunny air. The fish leaped from the river, glittering, into the sun. The deer trooped through the forest, the fawns and the does together. The sun sprang up after each night out of clear dawn; the first beams that he touched the earth with were warm. And the mists that lay heavy and white, following the river-beds, arose at his bidding and left the earth, and lightly ascended into the heaven, and, caught by the upper winds, were swept to the east as clouds, or dissolved and passed away in the hot embrace of the sun. The world was awake and alive again. And on one of these May mornings Delissa went down to the river to draw water. It was shortly after sunrise. As she stood on the shingly beach, and felt the warmth of the sun on her face and arms, and heard overhe...
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