This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII SALOME HEARS QALOME walked in the broom patch very early on the morning of a September day. The autumn furze and heath commingled and wrought huge blended masses of colour upon the hillside. Their pattern extended aloft towards the naked crown of Halstock Hill and swept richly to the river ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII SALOME HEARS QALOME walked in the broom patch very early on the morning of a September day. The autumn furze and heath commingled and wrought huge blended masses of colour upon the hillside. Their pattern extended aloft towards the naked crown of Halstock Hill and swept richly to the river below. Here its brilliance was increased by sudden splashes of bright sphagna, where springs broke. Warm sunshine still haunted the hollows, and humblebees droned in many yellow flowers; but aloft, on the high lands, frost crept by night, winter again approached, and the light was already dying out of the herbage. Salome Westaway moved here in a moment of rest between hours of severe labour. At Michaelmas her father was to leave Belstone for the cottage at Church Hill Cross, and already the articles necessary to complete this reduced home had been separated from the bulk of the furniture at the farm. Boxes were being packed and preparations for departure occupied each hour. Weary of the painful business and driven by sudden longing for loneliness and silence, Joseph Westaway's younger daughter now walked with her thoughts upon the past. Then she strove to banish memories, so that Oke's present music might soothe her spirit. Chance brought Jesse Redvers to her, and from peace she was plunged straightway into the highest experience of her lire. Upon his road in another direction, he had caught sight of Salome far off, and hastened to her side. He welcomed the event. As he approached her, it occurred to him how those pleasures that flash up unexpected by life's way, dawn with richest light upon the heart and leave the sweetest savour when they are gone. "I seed 'e near a mile off, an' I guessed you was having a rest from the fret an' tear an'...
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Good. 1905. The Macmillan Company. Cloth, 12mo, viii and 385 pp. Ex-library, with the usual faults. Rubbing and wear to boards, fraying to head and tail of spine. Good. (Subject: Literature. )
