A Story or Two from an Old Dutch Town (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Roberts brothers Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General 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: MR. SCHERMERHORN'S MARRIAGE AND WIDOWHOOD. Alors . . . le soleil brille, gaiement; la brise parfume; toutes les illusions, ces oiseaux du matin de la vie, gazouillent autour de nous Pourquoi s'envolent-elles, plus tard 1 -- Souvestre, Philosophe sous les Toils, Chap. VI. 'T'HOSE who knew Westenvliet, fifty years agone, must remember (but their hearts will give a little bound as they recall her) Grace Aylwin. Who of them cannot see her again, as she grew up through her pretty and winsome maidenhood, with everybody wishing good things to her; and as with all her true, young heart she married; and as, like a fair-tinted, light- floating vapor of the morning, she passed away before men's eyes. Our readers of the finer breeding in the town will not forget her, as with their own children she came to their own or their neighbors' houses, the gentlest and most gracefulof the little throng that carried laughter and frolic up and down the stairways and along the garden-walks. They can easily bring back with the name the glossy, waving hair, the deep and bashful eyes; the burst of laughter, harmless and fresh as the rippling of a brook; her flash of red confusion; the touching quickness and softness of her voice; and her lithe slight shape. How eager in her speech she was, and how suddenly still, among a troop of girls going through Hague Street to that day's famous school, in Bridge Way Avenue The dealers of that time (...