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Fallen Pride; Or the Mountain Girl's Love
Fallen Pride Or the Mountain Girl's Love Author:Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth General Books publication date: 2009 Original Publisher: T.B. Peterson 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 bo... more »oks for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H. CLIFTON AND THE BEAUTIES. " Against the cliffs Sce'st thnu not where the mansion stands ? The mooi. bcam Strikes on the granite column, and tall trees Group shadowy round it." -- Anonymous. A most portentous trial waits thec now -- Woman's bright eyes and dazzling snowy brow. -- Moorx Trra torrents had been so terribly swollen and overflowed, and the roads so dreadfully washed and guttered by the tempest and flood of the preceding evening, that the travellers found the greatest difficulty in pursuing their journey, often naving to turn back miles on this road to take another way, and often being obliged to search leagues up and down the course of a river, to find a practicable ford. Therefore it was near night-fall when they crossed the last range of forest-crowned mountains, and descended into the wooded valley that lay between them and White Cliffs. A winding road through the woods brought them to the house. The full moon was rising East of the cliffs, and casting their shadow back across the house and lawn. The mansion wah a lofty edifice of white stone, with terraced roof, and many irregular, projecting wings. The tall trees surrounding the buildings, the lofty cliffs rising behind them, the dark shadow falling on all; the hour, the silence, and the solitude, gave an air of refreshing coolness and deep repose to the scene. On turning an angle of the building, they saw the drawing- room windows open, and the light from them gleaming out cheerfully across that part of the lawn. At that moment a servant, waiting at the hall door, came down to take their horses. " All well at...« less