The Cobweb Cloak - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0217033210 ISBN 13: 9780217033213

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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. 1912. Excerpt: ... fore I saw it, when first I heard of the Allee Noire and the Carrefour of the Grand Bassin and the Roads of the Four Winds." She said it dreamily, the very names had such meaning for her. How they brought back poor little Daphne's stories to her and her childhood, that now, to her at eighteen, seemed so very long ago. It was all so strange, as all things of her life had been. It was less strange now to be here in the forest,--that she seemed always somehow to have known,--in its autumn, with the great black flights of crows across it, and the singing of the sea in the pines down the Allee Noire, than it had been to hear Rene talk of it, away far from it, in the house on Washington Square. She thought of Aunt Margaret's saying it was better so, that Daphne should be gone,--out of the world, like the going out of a light in vast darknesses,--talking of ruined lives and of the word sin, that she, Marah, never had been able to understand. She thought of her father, and shrank from the thought of him, because the more she loved him, the more she blamed him, though she only dimly knew what there was to blame him for. Then she thought of the Frenchman, who had talked to her of the forest, that seemed so strangely to be more her home than the house from which Daphne was gone, or the house in which her father was left, kept apart from her, however near her, by some indefinable remaining of the darkness death had drawn between them, by some indefinable coming in between of the coldness of death. From the thought of it all came upon her, there in the forest house kitchen, a great wave of loneliness and strangeness. She put her hand out quickly, there where she sat by the fire, and caught at Rene's hand as he stood beside her. He laughed down at her, lifting her hand...

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• ISBN 10: 0217033210
• ISBN 13: 9780217033213
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