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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: CHAPTER III THE town of Surley was one of those villages to be found on Long Island twenty years ago. In those days?before the legion of automobiles had come out of the West, scattering dust over the landscape and New-Yorkers into the cottages; before the real-estate companies had cut up fine old places into two-by-four building lots and sold them to clerks who longed for suburban life; before the advertising concerns had thought it worth their while to add to the beauties of nature by artistic studies of still life, painted poignantly on a wooden background and placed on the verdant spring meadows; before it had quite reaped all the fruits of civilization?it offered a certain rural relief to the traveler. It had an air about it which combined both youth and age. Romance stalked through the streets of Surley?the romance that attends both spring and autumn, the romance of change and dissolution. The bay was in front, a flat waste of trees behind. From the one the fishermen pulled up their livelihood in the summer; from the other they shot down their livelihood in the fall. On one handwas the ice-chest; on the other, the cupboard. There were so many ways of getting a living that brains above the ordinary seemed a surplus weight to carry about. Besides the many fishermen and few tradespeople of Surley, there was a third class?a sporting class. This class was composed of wealthy men who owned large country places on the shore and who kept boats, horses, dogs. They modeled their lives after the merry hunting squires of England, and lived so scrupulously with that end in view that their complexions, from weather and good spirits, soon harmonized with the pink coats in which they pursued the illusive fox. And it was a joy to see them come galloping over the hill with a Ta-ta-t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217543002
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217543006
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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