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Synopsis
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: ... WILT THOU HAVE THIS WOMAN? CHAPTER I THE SQUIRE AND THE GENTLEMAN-FARMER IT was September, and all the pleasant southern land lay smiling in the early sun, like a healthy child when first it wakes and waits for its mother's morning care. The charm of sunshine and silence, dream and departing slumber, breathed from the varied landscape. The chanticleers of the farmyards had some hour since sounded their longdrawn reveilles; the birds in the scattered scented firwoods and in the bunched trees of the park had ceased from the joyful burst of song with which they are wont to greet the first hint of dawn; and all created things now hung in patient expectation of the appearance of their master, man---man who "goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening," who daily resumes his burden of toil and care, thought and speculation, of poverty and riches. The cows in the pasture grazed industriously, and now and then raised their heads to look for the boy who would come to drive them home for the morning milking; the watch-dogs sat upright outside their kennels, and eagerly listened for the first sound of the stirring hind or ostler; the half-felled trees in the woods waited for the axe to be laid to them again; the last remainder of wheat waited to be cut, and the stubble fields waited to be ploughed. Smoke began to ascend slowly from the chimneys of farm and cottage, and sounds of activity began to be heard. Doors opened, dogs barked, geese cackled, horses neighed, and men and women shouted,--and slowly and creakingly the mill of the day's business began to grind. It had been grinding slowly and steadily for more than an hour when seven struck softly on the old clock in the stable-turret of Pierrepont Hall,--the one great house of the neighbourhood, ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150416947
- ISBN 13 9781150416941
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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