Excerpt from Arden Massiter I look out from one of my windows - it opens to the floor and has a wrought-iron balcony hanging to its edges like a bird's nest. Below, at a fearful distance, is a ravine, watered by tumbling rivulets, choked with ilex and chestnut, the tops of which are shivering and complaining - a sea of green waves, over it now and then the sunshine glancing merrily. Oh my right, high fantastic hills, in their outline strangely irregular, with here and there a screen of stone-pines, desolate beyond ...
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Excerpt from Arden Massiter I look out from one of my windows - it opens to the floor and has a wrought-iron balcony hanging to its edges like a bird's nest. Below, at a fearful distance, is a ravine, watered by tumbling rivulets, choked with ilex and chestnut, the tops of which are shivering and complaining - a sea of green waves, over it now and then the sunshine glancing merrily. Oh my right, high fantastic hills, in their outline strangely irregular, with here and there a screen of stone-pines, desolate beyond imagination. It is a sullen sky that lies couchant on the heights. By going to the angle of the balcony and twisting my neck round, I catch glimpses of theopen country - olive-groves, corn-fields in stubble, cane-brakes, and a white village or two on the distant hillsides. There are lovely hanging mists of rain, shot through in places by the floating and uncertain sun, but even where they touch the white houses I feel that the lines are distinct, not magically shaded as in our N orthern landscapes. The mystery which takes us children of the cloud hides within this painted cavern of a fortress, or down among the tall trees in the ra vine. Elsewhere, the shapes of things are palpable and their measure is their beauty. Think of F rancia or Fra Bartolommeo, not of Turner, when you picture these Volscian Hills, even with a storm rising over them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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