Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33
ids. When the carriage had stopped, heruncle had lifted her to what she felt to be theveranda floor, and then turning her quicklyabout, had given the command, Now,look! This was what she saw: a broad sweep ofsmooth turf, stretching down to where the 20 A FRIGATE S NAMESAKE. [Nov. tops of a line of… … FOR ONE MOMENT ESSEX HAD STOOD ABSOLUTELY MOTIONLESS. these bluffs and above their grass-crownedsummits, reaching to right and left as far asthe eye could see, lay a long band of restlessrolling blue, that seemed to melt into the sun-set-purpled haze of the eastern sky. For one moment Essex had…
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