The Redemption of Damian Gier (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.1904 Excerpt: ... XL The broad branched larches threw lacy shadows on the grass. The scent of roses mingled with the odour of distant haymaking sweetened the lucid summer air. The turrets, peaked roof, and stone gables of a fair English mansion glinted through the gently waving trees, and the brilliance of August shone lazily over all, creeping slowly and as the drowsy hours travelled on their sun way, into one shady nook in the long avenue, stealthily burnishing the bright head dress of an Eastern woman who sat there. An Eastern woman holding a ittle child--a tiny bunch of lace and linen and silken bows, a smiling mite whose pale rosy lips curled into the infant semblance of a familiar smile, a pretty baby, whose great dark eyes looked steadily at the light spires with latent speculation in their growing glow. She clutched, grabbed and chuckled at the swaying fronds of the fan of twisted fern with which her nurse tempered the heat and kept at bay the summer insects, and struggled ineffectually with her long hampering skirts to kick her toes, with coos and crows of pleasure at the dancing leaves. The Eastern woman laughed, then lifted her head to listen, looking towards the house with the grave eyes of Gulbeyez of the tribe of Gul Abdurraman Kan. Her small imperious charge made great to do because the fern fan ceased to wave; but Gulbeyez was listening to a rustle approaching over the grass--an appearance precipitated by this young autocrat of barely eighteen inches long arching her back and screaming lustily, in infantile disapproval of' a divided duty." A lady in deep mourning came quickly into the avenue from a leafy side path and hurried to the nurse and child. "Allie Allie What is the matter, Gulbeyez?" Gulbeyez explained, and the lady confiscated the screaming bundle...