The green ray tr by M de Hauteville Author:Jules Verne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE ARTICLE IN THE "MORNING POST." LOVERS of physical curiosities might have read in that day's Morning Post :— " Have you sometimes observed... more » the sun set over the sea ? Have you watched it till the upper rim of its disk, skimming the surface of the water, is just about to disappear ? Very likely you have ; but did you notice the phenomenon which occurs at the very instant the heavenly body sends forth its last ray, which, if the sky be cloudless, is of unparalleled purity ? No, perhaps not. Well, the first time you have the opportunity, and it happens but rarely, of making this observation, it will not be, as one might think, a crimson ray which falls upon the retina of the eye, it will be ' green,' but a most wonderful green, a green which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, a green which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the shades of the most limpid sea couldever produce the like ! If there be green in Paradise, it cannot but be of this shade, which most surely is the true green of Hope ! " So ran the article in the Morning Post, the newspaper which Miss Campbell held in her hand when she entered the hall. This paragraph had simply bewitched her, and with great excitement she read to her uncles these few hurried lines, which sang the praises of the Green Ray in a somewhat lyric form. But what Miss Campbell did not tell them was that this Green Ray tallied with an ancient legend, which till now she had never been able to understand. It was one among the numerous inexplicable legends of the Highlands, which avers that this ray has the virtue of making him who has seen it impossible to be deceived in matters of sentiment ; at its apparition all deceit and falsehood are done away, and he who has been fortunate enough once to behold it is e...« less