Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 270
star-light, the summer winds,and the breath of the brier-roses! He sat fora moment, thinking. Then suddenly he put themilk-bowl down, and sat up, listening. Someone, not very far away, had coughed. It was asharp, nervous cough. After it came a sound ofvoices. He stepped to the door and looked out.… … THE HOT-HEADED VAN SWERINGKN HAD STRUCK THE GOVERNOR TWICEACROSS THE FACE WITH HIS DOESKIN GLOVES. to a little terrace just below the spring-house,they paused under a sycamore with a trunklike a castle-tower. One of the men was talland spare, and held himself aloof, thoughspeaking in a shrill, thin…
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