Category: Novels
BENEATH the crags which overhang one of the deep mountain valleys of Westmoreland, there nestles an old farm-house, whose low, irregular roof, deep stone porch, and large round chimneys, make it a type of its class. Its windows are low, wide, and mullioned; and on the sunny si...
BENEATH the crags which overhang one of the deep mountain valleys of Westmoreland, there nestles an old farm-house, whose low, irregular roof, deep stone porch, and large round...
2. CHAPTER II.Before supper was over at the Yews, Chance and Laddie were heard barking vehemently without. This vociferous demonstration was made whenever any stranger appeared on the premise...
3. CHAPTER III.Miles leaned on the windowsill, and thought long and anxiously. The snow, continued to fall, soft and silent. The deep stillness of the night was oppressive in its solemn weight...
4. CHAPTER IV."Take we heed to all our foot-prints; Tell-tales are they, where we go. Let them bear no evil witness On the sand, or on the snow; On the mould, or on the clay, Or life's dusty,...
5. CHAPTER V."Thou wilt not be weary of me; Thy promise my faith will sustain; And soon, very soon I shall see That I have not been asking in vain." A. L. WARING.
6. CHAPTER VI.It was days before Miles Lawson rallied. His powers were so utterly prostrated, that dull heavy sleep seemed to be the only resource of nature. They could scarcely rouse him, ev...
7. CHAPTER VII."Life is astir beneath dead Nature's snows Spring's quickened pulse is bounding through the earth. Lo, in the wakened heart a life-stream flows: Old things are dead; behold a se...