Aunt Hepsy's Foundling (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... reverse himself in a moment and disappear with a quick plunge if he should see fit. How beautiful it was The trees met overhead, the soft rash of wings now and again stirred the air.... Suddenly a sound broke the quiet: a sound that was not ono of nature's voices. Jeva knew it for the regular plash of a canoepaddle, and soon in the arch of trees across a turn of the stream, the smitten waters parted and gleamed, the lily-pads swayed with the eddies that circled in ripples of light, the green shadows stirred and wavered. The canoe and its occupants--Val Brabazon and the three dogs--were now in sight.... The "English gentleman" who had left by the morning's boat was then--Christie Glynn BOOK THIRD. IN.CLOUD AND STORM. CHAPTER I. UNCLE DAN. Some unexpected delay occurred in the matter of Daniel Reed's arrival in Godsville. He was a man to whom. " business" appeared as the one great fact of life--a fact before which all other circumstances were bound to bow down and prostrate themselves. The interests of business detained him in Europe longer than had been anticipated, and so it came about that when at last ho sailed up the St. Ruthven, the shadows on either margin of the river were stained all red and yellow with the reflections of the trees overhead, while here and there and everywhere fallen leaves, crimson, gold, and dappled, like so many gaily-painted fairybarges, bobbed up and down on the water, or were whirled round and round in the eddies made by the steamer. The first sharp snap of frost had already passed over the land, turning the leaves of the squash and melon black, and killing all the more tender plants in the open. The first snow-buntings, those harbingers of winter, were seen fluttering on the snakefence or darting from tre...