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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II CHILDHOOD MEMORIES WITH a small effort of memory there will come into my mind the far-off recollection of the evening of a long warm summer day, the sun already set, and a vaguely oppressive stillness in the air, broken only by the dull drone of insect life. I had strayed alone to the limit of our home grounds, thinking proudly for the fiftieth time of how I had that day attained the dignified age of five years; and I stood listening for the sound of wheels which tarried. With the exception of a few sparse homesteads there was nothing but wild, wide country, largely woodland, all around, and I recall how with ears intent, and with a certain uneasy wonder, I now and again caught the wholly unwonted sound of some soft music floating in the air as if from a vast distance. It was impossible to locate or explain the sound, the source of which remains to this day a mystery, but on returning to the house and conferring with a brother two years my senior, it was agreed between us that these subtle strains might somehow be connected with the Great Exhibition, an explanation which, preposterous enough, considering that London was sixty miles away, was not beyond the stretch of my own imagination, while it doubtless had its origin in the fact that our parents and others of the family were absent that day on an excursion to the world's wonder in Hyde Park.We ourselves were eagerly waiting to hear of the marvels they had seen, and they were already more than an hour late. Whether childish excitement and fatigue had had some unwonted effect upon the nerves I know not, but my brain must have been set a-thinking in a way that has through all my subsequent life fastened that day with a strange vividness upon my memory, and what may be better worth recounting, often in the years but la...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217130738
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217130739
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr

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