Hollowhill Farm, a Novel; A Novel (Paperback)


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. A PAIR OF HANDCUFFS. IOSSIBLY you have no sympathy with cold hearts; the sight of snow makes you shudder; leafless trees, brown grass, red noses, and chapped hands, are suggestive neither of comeliness nor pleasure. Farmer Danger's nose was red, Farmer Danger's hands were chapped, and although his round face was ruddy with health, and his short squat figure proclaimed a species of clumsy strength, he was not altogether a picturesque object. We will therefore dismiss him within doors to his hot coffee, and his cold pie; for Dame Dorothy hasscreamed forth, "Are you coming in to breakfast this morning, Richard Danger, or are you not?" Ascend with me this knoll crowned by a group of fir trees, tall, gaunt and spectral they loom in their winding-sheets. Now look forth over the bog and over the marsh; we are high enough up here to have a good view of the sea which bounds the distance; how glassy and quiet and peaceful it looks!?indeed, repose and peace are the characteristics of the whole scene. How pure and colourless is the fresh fallen snow; as yet no stain of earth is upon it, the step of man has not destroyed its wavy undulating surface; but here and there objects arise to break the monotony of the view; a few turf ricks, a solitary fir tree, a flock of sheep huddled together and looking brown by contrastwith the surrounding whiteness; a herd of oxen standing knee deep in a drift, patiently awaiting their extrication. Are these not picturesque features in the wintry landscape? Mark the rough and broken ground that shuts in the valley. See how the black rocks and brown trees stand out in strong relief from their setting of snow. See how the heavy wreaths hang upon the boughs which, bending beneath the weight, dip into the dark waters of the sile...

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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. A PAIR OF HANDCUFFS. IOSSIBLY you have no sympathy with cold hearts; the sight of snow makes you shudder; leafless trees, brown grass, red noses, and chapped hands, are suggestive neither of comeliness nor pleasure. Farmer Danger's nose was red, Farmer Danger's hands were chapped, and although his round face was ruddy with health, and his short squat figure proclaimed a species of clumsy strength, he was not altogether a picturesque object. We will therefore dismiss him within doors to his hot coffee, and his cold pie; for Dame Dorothy hasscreamed forth, "Are you coming in to breakfast this morning, Richard Danger, or are you not?" Ascend with me this knoll crowned by a group of fir trees, tall, gaunt and spectral they loom in their winding-sheets. Now look forth over the bog and over the marsh; we are high enough up here to have a good view of the sea which bounds the distance; how glassy and quiet and peaceful it looks!?indeed, repose and peace are the characteristics of the whole scene. How pure and colourless is the fresh fallen snow; as yet no stain of earth is upon it, the step of man has not destroyed its wavy undulating surface; but here and there objects arise to break the monotony of the view; a few turf ricks, a solitary fir tree, a flock of sheep huddled together and looking brown by contrastwith the surrounding whiteness; a herd of oxen standing knee deep in a drift, patiently awaiting their extrication. Are these not picturesque features in the wintry landscape? Mark the rough and broken ground that shuts in the valley. See how the black rocks and brown trees stand out in strong relief from their setting of snow. See how the heavy wreaths hang upon the boughs which, bending beneath the weight, dip into the dark waters of the sile...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

2012

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First published

2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

40

ISBN-13

978-0-217-22691-2

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9780217226912

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0-217-22691-4



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