Dynevor Terrace

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000675627
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 872.98 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Dynevor Terrace
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of accompaniment in a sort of cadence--