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The Winter Lodge: Or, Vow Fulfilled: An Historical Novel. The Sequel to ...
The Winter Lodge Or Vow Fulfilled An Historical Novel The Sequel to Author:James Weir General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Original Publisher: Lippincott, Grambo, and co. 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 w... more »here you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. About three weeks after the events narrated in our last chapter, a solitary horseman picked his way carefully along a first trail or path, winding among the rugged hills, lying off in a southeast direction from the station of Head aud Dufie -- distant some five-and-twenty miles, and somewhere near the present boundary line of the counties of Logan and Mublenberg. It was a wild and desolate scene, a picturesque mingling together of abrupt hills, deep valleys, and moss- covered limestone rocks; the whole made dark, and shadowy, and gloomy and cheerless enough, by a thick matted undergrowth of hazle-nut, pea, and grape-vine, overshadowed and sombre, from the huge wide-spreading boughs of the overtopping forest. The rider seemed to be in doubt as to his road; for he travelled very slowly, frequently stopping on the points of the hills to make observations; and more than once, when the path became very much confused, dismounting from his horse to make a closer examination of the trace he had been pursuing; every now and then, as the trail became more faint and indistinct, and he himself seemed perplexed by the rug- gedness of the route, and its tortuous windings along the hills and hollows, having recourse to a small pocket-compass, which always appeared to satisfy him and dispel his hesitation; for, after each examination, he pressed forward with renewed zeal and energy -- not, however, without casting many anxious glances around him, as if fearful of or expecting some lurking enemy. He had not the appearance of a borderer or backwoodsman, nor ...« less