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Author by : Anne I. Robertson
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-03-26
Publisher by : Forgotten Books
ISBN : 0365591904
Excerpt from Yaxley and Its Neighbourhood, Vol. 3: A Novel in Three Volumes Now, though carefully protected from feet and sunshine in many places by strips of linen, which undoubtedly gave evidence, by its soiled aspect, of how much dirt it saved its Charge beneath from; there was no rug, but a piece of the aforesaid dirty grey linen was spread over the hearth where a rug should have been. Some pictures in oil colours, all extremely sombre looking, and plentifully hung with a tapestry of cobwebs, adorned the walls; and lastly, two black cats with gleaming eyes sat before the dim fire, suggesting ideas of evil spirits and dark witch craft. The mistress Of the house was tall, strongly formed, and upwards of seventy years Old; she wore a rusty black crape cap of pyramidal shape, terminating in a peak at top, crowned by a bow with floating ends, which suggested the idea Of a portentous flag flying from some high, lugu brions fortress her general attire was dark, if not actually black - these sombre hues being. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works....