Fortune's Fool Author:Julian Hawthorne General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: James R. Osgood and Company Subjects: American fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has n... more »o 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: Murdoch had disappeared, he still stood erect and watchful with the glow fixed in his cheek, and eyes sharpened and bright. But at last he crouched down, and then threw himself at length upon the rocky brow of the Witch's Head, and gave way to passionate sobs and tears. There was no one to comfort him. The old Frenchman, who had aided him to guess so many secrets, had never hinted a word to him about the secret of his soul. CHAPTER IV. "l'histoibe D'un Homme Bst Dong L'histoire De Tous Les Hommes," Says Alexandre Dumas J " Une Epreuve Plus Ou Moins Longue, Plus Ou Moins Douloureuse ! La Voix De L'humanite Tout Entiehe N'est Qu'un Long Crie." The house in which M. Jacques lived was the oldest house in the village of Suncook. It stood at the southwestern extremity of the congregation of dwellings which bore that name. At its landward corner towered an enormous elm- tree, whose lower branches drooped till they swept the roof of weather-blackened shingles. The roof, on that side, descended in a long slope to within eight feet of the ground ; on the seaward front it was shorter, giving room for two rows of windows, one above the other. The entrance was at the end, and was ornamented by a gable porch; the house, like most American houses of that epoch, was built of wood throughout, except the foundation, which was of granite; it was clapboarded, and had been painted red, but was now of a dull mahogany hue. The gras...« less