Zack Zack
Published: 2015-07-09
Total Pages: 328
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Excerpt from Life Is Life: And Other Tales and Episodes Pax Intrantibus was carved on the great gates of Thursby Chase; but they sagged on their rusty hinges, and looked as if few cared to put their greeting to the test. The old Jacobean house, visible from a bend in the avenue, had an air of fallen fortunes; across the sleepy alleys grass crept undisturbed, and in the old-world gardens old-world flowers stretched up, cramped and cold, to the gaze of the October sun. Beech woods lined the back of the hill on which the house stood; below, in the valley, the river sidled, till the trees in their turn were displaced by gorse, then again by homely arable or quiet-faced pasture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.