Noel D'Auvergne Author:Samuel Richardson 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 III. BRAVELY DONE ! " I saw the treasured splendour, her hand, Come sliding out of her sacred glove, And the sunlight broke from her lip." Tenn... more »yson. Tl/TARY LEYNE, her fair face shadowed by a broad-leafed straw hat, stood alone in the perfumed garden, pleased within herself at the sunny thoughts of the approaching Summer. She was not the least lovely object in the exquisite scene spreading around her lithe young form. At her feet flowers bowed before her to the healthy ocean breeze, and the clustering foliage of many trees made welcome protection from the oppressive noontide heat. Hedge and hill-side wore that pale green hue of Spring—a delicate colour which is seen in Autumn too, ere the leaves wrinkle, and yellow, and succumb to the inexorable winds. A silent passion for flowers dwelt in the innocent breast of Mary Leyne. She would stoop over their wonderful petals reverentially,and, witnessing their perfection, thanked God for it and for all things ! In solitude they appealed to her imagination, by the simple universal language of their eloquent beauty,— " Every where about us are they glowing, Some like stars, to tell us Spring is born: Others, their blue eyes with tears o'erflowing, Stand like Ruth amid the golden corn." Watering some favourite plants on the box-wood bordered way, she moved leisurely down one of the many paths of the garden, until, at length, arrived at the brow of a small cliff, under which was heard the familiar music of the sea-waves dashing persistently up the rugged sides of imperturbable rocks, Mary Leyne, drinking in a long draught first of the sweet pure air, and, in the glad intoxication of health and the happiness of goodness, breaking forth into merry singing laughter, sat down in gay abandonment upon a rustic se...« less