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. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...there a dimple of the sunlight plays upon the pool where I am fishing. Her eye is hazel, and bright; and now and then she turns it on me with a look of girlish curiosity, as I lift up my rod, --and again in playful menace, as she grasps in her little fingers one of the dead fish, and threatens to throw it back ...
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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. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...there a dimple of the sunlight plays upon the pool where I am fishing. Her eye is hazel, and bright; and now and then she turns it on me with a look of girlish curiosity, as I lift up my rod, --and again in playful menace, as she grasps in her little fingers one of the dead fish, and threatens to throw it back upon the stream. Her little feet hang over the edge of the bank, and from time to time she reaches down to dip her toe in the water, and laughs a girlish laugh of defiance, as I scold her for frightening away the fishes. "Bella," I say, "what if you should tumble in the river?" "But I won't." "Yes, but if you should?" "Why then you would pull me out." "But4if I would n't pull you out?" "But I know you would; would n't you, Paul?" "What makes you think so, Bella?" "Because you love Bella." "How do you know I love Bella?" "Because once you told me so; and because you pick flowers for me that I cannot reach; and because you let me take your rod when you have a fish upon it." "But that 's no reason, Bella." "Then what is, Paul?" "I 'm sure I don't know, Bella." A little fish has been nibbling for a long time at the bait; the cork has been bobbing up and down; and now he is fairly hooked, and pulls away toward the bank, and you cannot see the cork.--"Here, Bella, quick!"--and she springs eagerly to clasp her little hands around the rod. But the fish has dragged it away on the other side of me; and as she reaches farther and farther, she slips, cries "Oh Paul!"--and falls into the water. The stream they told us, when we came, was over a man's head: it is surely over little Isabel's. I fling down the rod, and thrusting one hand into the roots that support the overhanging bank, I grasp at her hat as sfte comes up; but the ribbons give way, and I see...
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