Steyne's Grief
by Fairleigh Owen (9780217054393)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER THIED. BIEDIETHOEN. " Childhood, happiest stage of life, Free from care and free from strife; Free from Memory's ruthless reign, Fraught with scenes of former pain; Free from Fancy's cruel skill, Fabricating future ill; How thy long-lost hours I mourn, Never, never to return " Scott. The cart kept on its leisurely course; over the small bridge which spanned the " Creek;" through the beautiful and more exclusive quarter of " Piert's Rest," with its mingling of quaint farm-house and ancient stone buildings, modernised and beautified by the taste of wealthy occupants, with now and again a cottage orne half buried in trees, and pleasant glimpses here and there of flower-beds, rustic arbours and all the belongings of wealth and luxury. But all seemed slumbering under the sultry rays of an unclouded summer sun. A straw hat, a green parasol, a white dress, did occasionally gleam out from the thickest of these shady coverts; where some fair reader had, perhaps, stolen away to enjoy a favourite book; but these were rare objects: all was so still, the lazy wash of the waves upon the beach, at some distance from this point, might be distinctly heard. Even in the fields which lay on one side of the road for a short distance, the haymakers had rested from their task and slept under the spreading tree, whoseleaves seemed to share their slumbers, so motionless was the air. The driver of the cart plodded heavily along; and for all that one could see to the contrary, he and his horses might have been pursuing their journey in a state of somnambulism. But there were two, at least, who were, to all intents and purposes, wide awake to every beauty of the scene, to every feature of the country; so new, so beautiful to them; fresh from a large and busy town. The chil...

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