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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3 awoke the at valiers to a dered less dis parent shades c by the night's departed fron country, the among the her' surcharged clc a subsequent tt on an even plai the eye woul found the cott the soil little c the watch do while the rave wolves deafenec the inhabited pa appearance was knotted brambl. assured them t be frequented: from their direi where the oppos: they rode forward with an undaunted spirit: the thunder rolled above them harshly grating, while the broad flash with transitory gleam repeatedly misled their dazzling sight. Henri, who being the best mounted, hid hitherto kept the foremost, feeling himself violently shaken in his saddle by the bad footing of his courser, conceived he was again entangled, and en- couraging her with his voice, he spurred with all his might hi hope to overleap this imaginary thicket: the beast, so furiously impelled, stumbled a few paces forward and then with a prodigious bound, sprung into a stream which waters gathered above her knees, while their spray dashed into the face of the astonished rider. A flash of lightning which swept along the surface, checked her wild career, and Henri, open to his danger, forcefully reined her to the shore, where he rejoined his apprehensive friend. He now questioned Pierre " I will call to those travellers," said7 Henri and he was on the point of exerting his voice, when a singular discordant shriek shocked the whole'company, and made them doubt of their honesty, " We better had depart," said Claudio " these noises are not inconsistent, and the first may induce the answerers to assault us." They had not ridden more than half a mile before they were saluted by the sound, though feeble, of what they conceited tobe a drum and a moment afterwards, the yelping of a cur came from the same quar...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9780217399821

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