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The Waters of Hercules

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... The Bohemian had not yet finished his terrible story when there was a sound like a gentle tap on the window pane. It was the first raindrop, and now the second followed, and the third, and the rain was coming down fast and thick. The Hercules Baths were saved, and the panic was past. The fire had cost thousands of trees, and one human life. CHAPTER XLIII. WHAT PEOPLE SAID. ' Was der rohe Aberglaube dem Teufel zur Last legt, das bilrdet der halbe Philosoph dem Schicksal auf."--Benzel-stebnan. The summer is over, and the monotonous rain pours down in torrents. The sky, which for so many weeks had been bright and distant, like the vault of a colossal dome, has darkened now, and lowered into the vault of a colossal dungeon; and with every hour it grows darker and sinks lower, as though with its weight it would grind the earth to powder. Damp veils wrap the hill-tops away from sight: from morning to night the rolling mist floats in and out of the gorge above the Cursalon, like the ghost of the dead summer, returned to haunt the scenes of its glory, and to weep over the retreats that once were its own. Gaura Dracului lies once more solitary; but its mask is torn from it. Charred trunks are heaped around it; the fringe of creepers has been devoured by the flames. Retribution has fallen at last on the hypocritical flowerets that help to hide this danger of the forest. It will be long before Gaura Dracului can build up its screen again and weave its veil anew. The aspect of the place is metamorphosed. These surviving trees that stand now so still and dripping, can they be the same that comported themselves so frantically on the night of the fire? They stare down motionless upon the destruction at their feet; they are shedding tears of penance over their late outbr...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235682872
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 174
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235682870
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 322 gr


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