General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1900 Original Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Company Notes: This is a
black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no
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books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IX. An Errand Of Mercy. On the
third day after my arrival at Nant-y-Bryn, at about eleven o'clock
of the morning I was standing at one of the windows of my uncle's
room. The prospect was dreary in the extreme. A thick, dark mist
had settled on the hills, and an old oak tree, forty yards away,
was a faint, ghost-like shadow in the dull grey vapour. The rain
fell heavily in straight, unbroken lines, and the trickling thread
of rivulet which passed the house had swelled to a furious yellow
flood, whose deep, hollow note filled the air. So dark was the day
that the room behind me was filled with the light of fire and
candle, as if the night had fallen. I turned my head and found my
uncle peering at me over the top of the book he held in his hand.
He was regarding me so intently and yet in a kind of abstraction,
that for a moment he seemed scarcely aware that our eyes were
meeting. I thought he was about to speak, but he lowered his glance
to the page before him and remained silent. He was sitting near the
fire, a candle at his elbow, and his usual medley of volumes heaped
around him. He had inherited my grandfather's passion for study,
and spent the greater part of his time in reading. I continued to
gaze upon him, half-idly, half-wondering why he was staring so hard
at me, and in a moment I found his eyes rising again. This time I
certainly thought he had something to say, but no; he looked down
again when he found that I was still regarding him. His thin,
delicate face shone pink in the firelight, his long white hair was
like silver, his bright dark ...
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