Description - Elizabeth de Bruce Volume 3 by Christian Isobel Johnstone
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... from the foot of these romantic crags. This was among the first of those sweet days of spring, when rural and suburban amities are renewed by the periodical intercourse of the smoky lanes and loathly alleys of the city, with the adjacent farm-houses and hamlets--one of nature's own holidays--" moveable feasts" of the heart, depending more on the sun than the calendar, which will occur in the vicinity of great towns, as long as nature retains her power over human affections. " Perhaps, ' thought Elizabeth, looking on the holiday ramblers, " these cottages are beloved birth-places: in these hamlet burial-yards there may lie ancestral graves." Troops of children were already on their way back to the city, laden with sylvan spoils; sometimes a crabbed old lodge-keeper or woodman giving chase, and spreading dire dismay. Elizabeth had ransomed two little fur caps, and begged off twice that number of delinquents against the forest laws, before she had advanced three miles. The ruby tassels of the larch, the downy catkins of the willow, and the gigantic buds of the chestnut and sycamore, now bursting from the russet cradles in which their lusty youtheid disdained to be longer cabined, made glorious spoil for those bolder imps who had first tired themselves in trying to demolish the rooks' nests perched in the trees around an old mansion she had passed. The lesser wights and the girls were contented with gathering whole lapfuls of butter-cups and gowans, and those tender leaflets of the hawthorn, which, in their own pretty language, they call " Ladyes Meat." How was it, indeed, possible for the young vagrants to resist the desire of appropriation in the midst of so much of beauty and bounty. Passing all these groups of young acquaintance, ...
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