The Reaping
by Mary Imlay Taylor (9781150520525)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: W. h AHAT Mrs. Allestree's divinations were not I very far short of the truth, or unlikely of fulfilment, would have been apparent to her could she have looked in, a few weeks later, on Rose and Fox together in Judge Temple's fine old library. In the judge's estimation the library was the one spot of the house, the sanctum sanctorum, and its noble book-lined walls imparted a warmth of color and an erudite dignity to a room of fine proportions lighted by an immense southern bow-window which overlooked the walled garden, where Rose had cultivated every flower which blooms in summer and every evergreen vine and ilex which lives in winter. Over the high wide mantel was one fine old painting which testified both to the extravagance and distinctive taste of the judge's grandfather, and on the book littered table stood a slender vase filled with roses. There was an exquisite delicacy, a refinement, an atmosphere of culture, even insuch minutiae as these, which gave a detailed charm to the perspective of the entire house. Rose herself sat in a high-backed chair by the open fire, her bright head and slender figure outlined against the dark background, while she listened, with all the freshness and enthusiasm of girlhood, to Fox's gay, easy talk, his dog, Sandy, lying stretched on the hearthrug between them in the blissful content of physical comfort and the instinctive assurance of safety and friendship which Rose's presence seemed to increase. To Fox, half the girl's charm lay in a certain rigid mental uprightness, a clear ethical point of view, which was enti...

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