Aldeane

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Excerpt from Aldeane: A Novel Though the wind without blew its shrillest blast and the snow came ceaselessly, while the bitter cold pointed each flake with ice as it fell, the inmates of the mountain farm-house heeded it but little, so deeply were they engrossed in their own thoughts and pursuits. It was a wildly-stormy night, but not more fierce were the winds that ruled it than the thoughts of some who gathered in the comfortable sitting-room around the blazing fire on the hearth-stone. There are times when the warring of the elements seems the signal for the rending asunder of bonds of duty, or custom, and especially for the deep bitterness of injured hearts to find vent in passionate words. Thus was it upon that tempest-ridden night in which our story opens. There had been an unusually large quantity of work to do upon the farm that day, and at best an estate of Massachusetts acres is not easily managed. It was, perhaps, because of that, and a foreboding of the toil that would come with the snow-clad morrow, that Jonas Nevins wore upon his ever-scowling brow a frown of unusual severity, and sat moodily by the fire gazing into the glowing coals. 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.