In Silk Attire A Novel Author:William Black General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origina... more »l. 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. The Look back. How still the lake lay, under the fierce heat! The intense blue of it stretched out and over to the opposite shore, and there lost itself in the soft green reflection of the land; while the only interruption of the perfect surface was a great belt of ruffled light stirred by the wind underneath the promontory of Spiez. Then overhead the misty purple mass of the Niessen; and beyond that again the snowy peaks of the Schreckhorn, Monch, and Jungfrau glimmering through the faint and luminous haze of the sunlight; and over these the serene blue of a Swiss sky. Down in front of the house, the lake narrowed to the sharp point at which it breaks suddenly away into the rapid, surging, green-white waters of the Aar; and at this moment, as seen from the open window, two men in a low flat boat were vainly endeavouring to make head against the powerful current. At the window sate a little girl of about four years old, with large, dark grey eyes, a bright, clear face, and magnificent jet-black curls; a doll-lookinglittle thlng, perhaps, but for the unusual depth and meaning of those soft, large eyes. All at once she put her elbows on a tiny card-table opposite her, clasped her hands, and said, with a piteous intonation, -- "Nu, Nu; oh, I don't know what to do!" Her father, who had been lying silent and listless on a couch in the shadow of the room, looked up and asked her what was t...« less