The Adventurer (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Adventurer The children, tired of play, sat on the retaining-wall at the Deutz end of the bridge-of-ships, pressed their hot faces against the iron pickets, and looked across the river at Cologne, long stretched and crescent shaped. A few tardy rays of the winter sun still gleamed upon the water, tried in vain to reach one another, quivered in the current, and were lost as tiny glowing dots... A silvery tone remained in the air. Then followed that wonderful clearness, which fills the souls of men as well as the soul of nature, and makes all things seem to take on sharper contours before the settling of gloom. Gabled and quaint, the spires of the Cathedral and the churches rising like pointing fingers toward the sky, the ancient, gray silhouette of Cologne was outlined along the Rhine. It was quiet upon the broad waterway. Unwieldy freight boats, long tows, and passenger steamers with high freeboards lay close together in the harbor like a tired herd, resting during the winter and awaiting better water conditions. 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.