A Nymph of the West

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Excerpt from A Nymph of the West: A Novel Midway between Lampasas and San Saba, the Colorado River runs - a wild, romafitic, winding stream. At times its placid current flows evenly over dimpling shoals and gleaming pebbles. Again, the waters deepen, and by flower-bordered banks its current eddies sullen, slow, and grand. But there is one place where the river plunges madly downward to roar at the base of precipitous rocks and writhe over bowlders in its shallow bed. Overhead dark hemlocks curtain this rage of waters from the gaze of day. The sunlight enters only by stealth, and then in tremulous pencils. At such moments, against the somber green of the swaying pines, the red-bird flashes, or the indigo-bird is seen - a living sapphire in the sudden light, and the rippling melody of rival mocking-birds enters the solemn aisles as though the gate of heaven were left ajar. Within these aisles the foot sinks luxuriously amid cushions of hemlock-boughs and pine-needles, the tall, time-scarred trunks lift themselves dimly like pillars of some leafy Gothic dome, the vague ranks of forest exhale their cool, damp spicery. All Nature is hushed and wan. 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.