The Portreeve (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Phillpotts, Eden) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Portreeve Devon spread her glory to the sun, and, in vesture of high summer, shone like an opal on earth´s buxom breast. The time was between the harvests. Pale meadows, whence the hay had vanished, spread for many a mile over hill and valley; ricks rose silvery and sweet of savour in the hot hazes; corn was kerning, and each glowing hour lessened the green of it and added to the gold. Beneath Dartmoor´s northern wing, removed from the central wilderness by some miles of forest, fallow and fertile land, a little church-town sunned itself and basked under the rare weather. Only in corners unseen sorrow lurked and suffering hid its head; content was at doors and windows; the hollow smiled and chimed with the music of children. Indeed, maternity seemed the first business of this nest. Here ripe matrons were suckling the race to come, and many a young wife budded to motherhood. They congregated where a rivulet, laden with sweet water from the Moor, babbled at their cottage doors, brought down the first dawn-light to earth, sparkled at noon, and reflected the evening star. A bridge spanned the water, and beside it sank steps to stream-side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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