Barbara Winslow Rebel Author:Elizabeth Ellis General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Subjects: English fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Westerns Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Wel... more »sh 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: CHAPTER II A Man might journey far afield and find no sweeter spot than the village of Durford as it appeared on a certain sunny September afternoon in the year of grace 1685. The low white houses with their heavy overhanging thatched roofs were bowered in roses; while in each miniature garden the riot of colour and perfume intoxicated the senses. The low sun spread the long, cool shadows of the trees across the brilliant emerald and gold of the meadows, and lighted up each leaf and flower distinct from its fellows. The square tower of the old grey church and the grey-green clump of the yew trees behind it were silhouetted against a golden haze like the head of a haloed saint. The summits of the distant hills faded in golden mist like the mystic scopes of Paradise. In the neighbouring orchards the trees bent beneath the weight of their russet burdens, the fields spread golden with the harvest, and the wooded hills burned with the bright, burnished tints of early autumn. It was as though in this, the evening of the year, mother earth were moved in emulation of the sky to deck herself in all the varied colours of the autumn sunset. In the woods the birds were practising for their autumn chorus, voicing the ecstatic joy of life in littleunexpected trills and bursts of song, while the heavy drone of the bees and the occasional cry of the grassho...« less