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. 1860 Excerpt: ... "cany the word" and he is consequently a person of great importance with the young of both sexes." Monsieur Souvestre makes the colour of the bazvalan's stockings red and purple. Yvonne had not absolutely refused him--she had been cold, but what of that? she was not one of those girls who at the first offer throw ...
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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. 1860 Excerpt: ... "cany the word" and he is consequently a person of great importance with the young of both sexes." Monsieur Souvestre makes the colour of the bazvalan's stockings red and purple. Yvonne had not absolutely refused him--she had been cold, but what of that? she was not one of those girls who at the first offer throw themselves into the arms of their lovers--on the contrary, she had listened patiently to all that Lebrun, and then her father, had to urge upon the subject, and had only asked for time, refusing to give an answer without due reflection. Decidedly Paul had reason to hope, and he thought so too, or he would not have sung so loudly--"Oh! then never despair, fond lover, There's hope while the heart heats high; The lark, whose nest is nearest earth, Finds her music in the sky." But Paul found his music everywhere--in the sky--on the earth--in the wind that shook the trees and swept over the long grass--in the hum of the innumerable insects that filled the evening air, and in the quavering song of " Nature's choristers," the birds, who thus poured out their thanksgiving before retiring to their rests; but the principal music that he found was in the contentment of his own heart. The news of Paul's good fortune was known everywhere, to judge from the salutations and words of congratulation that were addressed to him by all he met, and they were many while he kept to the road; but soon he quitted the beaten track, and struck off into a wide sea of broom, intersected here and there by narrow ribbon-like paths, which twisted in and out, as serpents twist and wind, when, suddenly alarmed, they seek a hiding-place. But Paul Lebrun knew each turn of the path he had chosen, though to a stranger it would have been a task more t...
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