The night before Christmas, frosty moonlight, the outcast preacher came down to the island shore and raised his hands to the stars. "O God! whose word I so long preached in meekness and sincerity," he cried, "have mercy on my child and its mother, who are poor as were Thine own this morning, eighteen hundred and forty years ago!" The moonlight scarcely fretted the soft expanse of Chincoteague Bay. There seemed a slender hand of silver reaching down from the sky to tremble on the long chords of the water, lying there in ...
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The night before Christmas, frosty moonlight, the outcast preacher came down to the island shore and raised his hands to the stars. "O God! whose word I so long preached in meekness and sincerity," he cried, "have mercy on my child and its mother, who are poor as were Thine own this morning, eighteen hundred and forty years ago!" The moonlight scarcely fretted the soft expanse of Chincoteague Bay. There seemed a slender hand of silver reaching down from the sky to tremble on the long chords of the water, lying there in light and shade, like a harp. The drowsy dash of the low surf on the bar beyond the inlet was harsh to this still and shallow haven for wreckers and oystermen. It was very far from any busy city or hive of men, between the ocean and the sandy peninsula of Maryland.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 286 pp. Original yellow cloth covers, very bright and clean. Light soiling to top edge of text block. DJ moderately soiled. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece of the author. Contents very nice.
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