The Travelling Thirds

The Travelling Thirds

Minor errors in punctuation and formatting have been silently corrected. Please see the transcribers note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The full-page illustrations are referred to, in the list provided, by a quote from the text, and the page reference is to the quote, rather than the position of the illustration in the text. In some cases, these were re-positioned to fall nearer the scene referenced. The California cousin of the Lyman T. Moultonsa name too famous to be shornstood apart from the perturbed group, her feet boyishly asunder, her head thrown back. Above her hung the thick white clusters of the acacia,[1] drooping abundantly, opaque and luminous in the soft masses of green, heavy with perfume. All Lyons seemed to have yielded itself to the intoxicating fragrance of its favorite tree. In the Place Carnot, at least, there was not a murmur. The Moultons had hushed in thought their four variations on the aggressive 2American key, although perhaps insensible to the voluptuous offering of the grove. Mrs. Moulton, had her senses responded to the sweet and drowsy afternoon, would have resented the experience as immoral; and as it was her pale-blue gaze rested disapprovingly on the rapt figure of her husbands second cousin. The short skirt and the covert coat of ungraceful length, its low pockets always inviting the hands of its owner, had roused more than once her futile protest, and to-day they seemed to hang limp with a sense of incongruity beneath the half-closed eyes and expanded nostrils of the young Californian. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50391
Author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Release Date: Nov 5, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English