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Suburban Sketches (Paperback)
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Suburban Sketches (Paperback)
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Loot Price R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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Total price: R383
Discovery Miles: 3 830
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It was on a morning of the lovely New England May that we left the
horse-car, and, spreading our umbrellas, walked down the street to
our new home in Charlesbridge, through a storm of snow and rain so
finely blent by the influences of this fortunate climate, that no
flake knew itself from its sister drop, or could be better
identified by the people against whom they beat in unison. A vernal
gale from the east fanned our cheeks and pierced our marrow and
chilled our blood, while the raw, cold green of the adventurous
grass on the borders of the sopping sidewalks gave, as it peered
through its veil of melting snow and freezing rain, a peculiar
cheerfulness to the landscape. Here and there in the vacant lots
abandoned hoop-skirts defied decay; and near the half-finished
wooden houses, empty mortar-beds, and bits of lath and slate strewn
over the scarred and mutilated ground, added their interest to the
scene. A shaggy drift hung upon the trees before our own house
(which had been built some years earlier), while its swollen eaves
wept silently and incessantly upon the embankments lifting its base
several feet above the common level.
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