Bread and Wine

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Excerpt from Bread and Wine: A Story of GraubunbenVery humorous, not lightly moved to anger, but being moved, hard to dissuade from the black and sullen sense of injury, of a most hardy health and courage, and thrifty as Lowland Scots. Although they are not rich in the picturesque superstitions and poetic folk-lore of Latin and Celtic races, they carry under their quiet bearing an uplifting passion for their mountains, and the gifts of true love and strong hate, and as all intensity of feeling quickly outruns prose, so these strong, homely people, who sing few ballads and reck little of witches and the other fairy folk, are sometimes moved to action as wholly poetic, devoted, or tragical, as any of the immortal lovers of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.