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The Knights of the Cross, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Knights of the Cross Vol 2 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Henryk Sienkiewicz THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS. CHAPTER XXXVI. THOUGH Hlava was hastening to Zgorzelitse he could not move so quickly as he wanted, for the road had grown immensely difficult. After a sharp winter and hard frosts, after snows so abundant that whole villages were hidden beneath them, great thaws came. February, in spite of its name Luty (Savage), did n... more »ot turn out in the least degree savage. First rose dense and impenetrable fogs, then rains came which were almost downpours, rains from which the white drifts thawed before the eye. During intervals between downpours winds blew such as were usual in ~Iarch, hence fitful and sudden, - winds which broke up and blew away swollen clouds in the sky; on the earth they whined through thickets. roared through forests, and devoured that snow under which just before limbs and branches were dreaming in the calm sleep of winter. On the fields the 'Yidely spread water wrinkled its surface, rivers and streams rose. Fish alone were delighte
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