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قراءة كتاب Bylow Hill
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BYLOW HILL
GEORGE W. CABLE
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
By F.C. YOHN
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York
MCMII
CONTENTS
IV. AND BRING DOWN THE REMAINDER
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Father," laughed the daughter, "isn't this rather youngish?" Frontispiece
Indeed it was clear that to go away would be unfair.
"Arthur Winslow, I give you five minutes."
"But to know every day and hour that I'm watched."
"I am waiting busily for her slayer."
"Arthur! Arthur! can't you speak?"
BYLOW HILL
I
RUTH AND GODFREY
The old street, keeping its New England Sabbath afternoon so decently under its majestic elms, was as goodly an example of its sort as the late seventies of the century just gone could show. It lay along a north-and-south ridge, between a number of aged and unsmiling cottages, fronting on cinder sidewalks, and alternating irregularly with about as many larger homesteads that sat back in their well-shaded gardens with kindlier dignity and not so grim a self-assertion. Behind, on the west, these gardens dropped swiftly out of sight to a hidden brook, from the farther shore of which rose the great wooded hill whose shelter from the bitter northwest had invited the old Puritan founders to choose the spot for their farming village of one street, with a Byington and a Winslow for their first town officers. In front, eastward, the land declined gently for a half mile or so, covered, by modern prosperity, with a small, stanch town, and bordered by a pretty river winding among meadows of hay and grain. At the northern end, instead of this gentle decline, was a precipitous cliff side, close to whose brow a wooden bench, that ran half-way round a vast sidewalk tree, commanded a view of the valley embracing nearly three-quarters of the compass.
In civilian's dress, and with only his sea-bronzed face and the polished air of a pivot gun to tell that he was of the navy, Lieutenant Godfrey Winslow was slowly crossing the rural way with Ruth Byington at