Faith Brandon

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Excerpt from Faith Brandon: A NovelDost thou recall the glimmering moonlight On rocks the billows dash with sullen roar, The rustling trees with drowsy leaves alight, Close by the garden, on the sea girt shore? Dost thou recall the freshness of the hour, The smell of roses and the murmuring brooks The music ¿owing from all nature's smiles - Polonsky, Night in the Crimea.From the veranda of the Hotel Miramar, picturesquely situated on the wooded heights above the Bay of Yalta, two men were quietly gazing at the lovely scene bathed in the light of the harvest moon. Before them, fragrant with blossoming shrubs, stretched a green lawn girdled by noble cedars and palms. A broad path led to the brow of the hill, on whose terraced sides twinkled myriad lights from the villas and gardens of the gay Crimean watering-place. In the background, like an amphitheatre, rose one upon an other the purple crests of the bordering mountains. Below was the Sparkling, jeweled bay, its wavelets lapping the feet of white-faced cliffs that gleamed as crystal in the rays of the moon. Beyond the bay, like a great dark emerald.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.