Oak Openings. Satanstoe. Mercedes of Castile Volume 8 (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. 1892 Excerpt: ...my sight showed me that, sure enough, the sleigh was on the bed of the river, over which it was in slow motion; forced downward before the new coating of ice that was fast covering the original surface. At first I could see no one in the sleigh; but, on reaching it, I found Anneke buried in the skins. She was on her knees; the precious creature was asking succor from God I had a wild but sweet consolation in thus finding myself, as it might be, cut off from all the rest of my kind, in the midst of that scene of gloom and desolation, alone with Anneke Mordaunt. The moment I could make her conscious of my presence, she inquired after Mary Wallace, and was much relieved on learning that she was with Guert, and would not be left by him, for a single instant, again that night. Indeed, I saw their figures dimly, as they moved swiftly across the channel that divided the two islands, and disappear in that direction, among the bushes that lined the place to which they had gone. "Let us follow," I said, eagerly. "The crossing is yet easy, and we, too, may escape to the shore." "Go you " said Anneke, over whom a momentary physical torpor appeared to have passed. "Go you, Corny," she said; "a man may easily save himself; and you are an only child--the sole hope of your parents." "Dearest, beloved Anneke --why this indifference--this apathy on your own behalf? Are you not the only child, the sole hope of a widowed father?--do you forget him?" "No, no, no " exclaimed the dear girl, hurriedly. "Help me out of the sleigh, Corny; there, I will go with you anywhere--anyhow--to the end of the world, to save my father from such anguish." From that moment the temporary imbecility of Anneke vanished...