ISBN: 9781154758061

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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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...Gerard. ''I will read this.'' ''Oh, not now, Gerard; not now,'' cried Margaret. ''Every moment you lose fills me with fear; and see, large drops of rain are beginning to fall, and the clouds lower.'' Gerard yielded to this remonstrance; but he put the deed into his bosom, and threw the earth in over the others, and stamped it down. While thus employed there came a flash of lightning followed by a peal of distant thunder, and the rain came down heavily. Margaret and Gerard ran into the house, whither they were speedily followed by Martin. ''The road is clear,'' said he, ''and a heavy storm coming on.'' His words proved true. The thunder came nearer and nearer till it crashed overhead; the flashes followed one another close, like the strokes of a whip, and the rain fell in torrents. Margaret hid her face not to see the lightning. On this, Gerard put up the rough shutter, and lighted a candle. The lovers consulted together, and Gerard blessed the storm that gave him a few hours more with Margaret. The sun set unperceived, and still the thunder pealed, and the lightning flashed, and the rain poured. Supper was set; but Gerard and Margaret could not eat: the thought that this was the last time they should sup together choked them. The storm lulled a little. Peter retired to rest; but Gerard was to go at peep of day, and neither he nor Margaret could afford to lose an hour in sleep. Martin sat a while, too; for he was fitting a new string to his bow,--a matter in which he was very nice. The lovers murmured their sorrows and their love beside him. Suddenly the old man held up his hand to them to be silent. They were quiet and listened, and heard nothing; but the next moment a footstep crackled faintly upon the autumn leaves that lay strewn in the garden... Charles Reade, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Cloister and the Hearth; A Tale of the Middle Ages Volume . 1 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1154758060

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