ISBN: 1155009339

[EAN: 9781155009339], Libro nuevo, [SC: 11.76], [PU: RareBooksClub], ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,TEXTBOOKS,CLASSICS,AUTHORS,ACTION AND ADVENTURE,ANTHOLOGIES,MOVIE TIE-INS, This item is printed… More...

[EAN: 9781155009339], Libro nuevo, [SC: 11.76], [PU: RareBooksClub], ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,TEXTBOOKS,CLASSICS,AUTHORS,ACTION AND ADVENTURE,ANTHOLOGIES,MOVIE TIE-INS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 124 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: . . . absurd effect on the contemplative pedestrian. To ride in such a carriage cannot be numbered among the things that appertain to glory; but I have no doubt it may be useful in liver complaint. Thence, perhaps, its wide popularity among physicians. One morning early, Jean-Marie led forth the Doctors noddy, opened the gate, and mounted to the driving-seat. The Doctor followed, arrayed from top to toe in spotless linen, armed with an immense flesh-coloured umbrella, and girt with a botanical case on a baldric; and the equipage drove off smartly in a breeze of its own provocation. They were bound for Franchard, to collect plants, with an eye to the Comparative Pharmacopoeia. A little rattling on the open roads, and they came to the borders of the forest and struck into an unfrequented track; the noddy yawed softly over the sand, with an accompaniment of snapping twigs. There was a great, green, softly murmuring cloud of congregated foliage overhead. In the arcades of the forest the air retained the freshness of the night. The athletic bearing of the trees, each bearing its leafy mountain, pleased the mind like so many statues, and the lines of the trunk led the eye admiringly upward to where the extreme leaves sparkled in a patch of azure. Squirrels leaped in mid-air. It was a proper spot for a devotee of the goddess Hygieia. Have you been to Franchard, Jean-Marie inquired the Doctor. I fancy not. Never, replied the boy. It is ruin in a gorge, continued Desprez, adopting his expository voice; the ruin of a hermitage and chapel. History tells us much of Franchard; how the recluse was often slain by robbers; how he lived on a most insufficient diet; how he was expected to pass his days in. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<