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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 XIV. SUNDAY AT THE MOUNTAIN. View from Garden Cottage.?Und tmter den Fiisscn ein nebliges Meer.?The Dairy.? Church at the Mountain.? Kost. ? The Weather Gardens.?Stars versus Cabbages. Next morning, Sunday, we were awakened by the novel sound of rain, pattering against the window panes, and on looking out I saw?nothing. A dense fog surrounded us, and hid the pretty garden which I doubted not was benefiting richly from its temporary concealment. By the time I had dressed, however, the air was somewhat clearer, and when I opened the door of our little drawing-room, a curious, perplexing view lay before me. Three paces from the door the ground went headlong down a precipice of 150 feet, covering its fall with Bahama grass, castor-oil trees and shrubs of different kinds. Then a rocky shoulder shot out from the main head, and on this stood the Mountain Hospital in a thicket of Port Jackson willows, now looking cool and fresh from their morning bath. Beyond this another steep descent went sheer down to the broad, crater-dotted plain which stretched away to (Irurrison and the sea, and where the sun was nowwinning with a fierce light, while the mist still floated litfully above anil around us. Here the air felt fresh, sweet, and English-like; there it looked stifling and altogether tropical. Here the moisture was dripping from every rain-soaked shrub, and distilling scent from the single rose-bush on which pretty pink buds were bursting into life, heedless of being eclipsed by the regal red blossoms of a neighbouring hibiscus: there, among the cinders, the parching dust still whirled in the wind, undamped by shower or mist, and the long-suffering Madagascar rose (Fined rosca) gave out no sweetness to the breeze. The whole scene gave one a curious sensation of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217992268
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 92
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217992269
  • Publisher Date: 09 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 181 gr


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