Category: Novels
Towering into the air, reflected deep in the river, the great height of Keedon Bluffs is doubled to the casual glance and augmented in popular rumor. Nevertheless a vast mass of rock it is, splintered and creviced, and with rugged, beetling ledges, all atilt, and here and ther...
Towering into the air, reflected deep in the river, the great height of Keedon Bluffs is doubled to the casual glance and augmented in popular rumor. Nevertheless a vast mass of...
2. Part 2Skimpy made an effort to hold him, but the stronger boy pulled easily away from him and ran. A whirl of the dry leaves, a whisking sound, and he was lost among the trees.
3. Part 3Despite all her fervor of anticipation, Rosamondy was not hungry. She knelt in her chair at the table to be tall enough to participate in the exercises, and her beaming pink fac...
4. Part 4“In my opinion _he_ ain’t no blind man. He kin see _some_, mebbe more, mebbe less. He air jes’ purtendin’. Set up thar an’ laff an’ joke ez spry ez a boy o’ twenty, an’ talk ’bo...
5. Part 5She understood him instantly. As the door swung a little ajar she looked back over her shoulder through the shed-room into the main room of the cabin. Binwell was not there; no...
6. Part 6He drew a long sigh of fatigue and gazed meditatively below. The next moment he gave a quick start. There along the ledges and niches of the great Bluffs, climbing down diagonal...
7. Part 7“I jes’ wanted ter skeer that thar t’other boy”—he was looking Skimpy over very closely as he spoke, his eyes narrowing, his lips pursed up in a sort of calculation—he might hav...
8. Part 8“Yes, take a-holt right thar”—as if this was an answer to all that the boy was about to ask. Binwell himself had run swiftly ahead and had caught up the other extremity of the l...
9. Part 9“How the wind blows!” the blind man said from time to time, lifting his gray head and his young face. And aunt Jemima would remark on “the powerful clatter” of the orchard bough...
10. Part 10“Dell-law!” Obadiah’s flexible lips distended in a wide and comprehensive sneer that displayed many large irregular teeth, and was in more ways than one far from beautiful. But...
11. Part 11Skimpy plucked up a little. The prospect of retrieving his folly reassured him. It was the hour, the secrecy of his escape from the roof-room window at home, the atmosphere of m...
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