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James Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere, With Illustr. by R. Cruikshank
James Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere With Illustr by R Cruikshank Author:James Hatfield General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ' The first mild touch of sympathy and thought." WoBDSWORTH. " My beautiful creature," exclaimed the stranger as he approached her, " would you direct me the way to the village? for I have lost my path in rambling about these wilds, and account myself happy in having found one who I think can set me right. I am sure," he added to himself, " I could follow her guidance wherever she led me !" In saying these words, the stranger arrived at the bottom of the hill, and stood close before the lovely object he had addressed, greeting her at the same time with a graceful inclination of the head, as he raised the travelling cap he wore from his brow. A certain excusable interest, no less than graceful deference, might have been detected as characterizing his inquiry, and shewed that the admiration he had conceived for this charming .- , W ./ , mountain-maiden was as much expressed in his address, as any alleged desire of gaining the information he asked of her. On her part, she knew not, at first, whether the air of distinction which characterized him, or the manly graces of his figure and handsome speaking countenance, possessed the worthiest claim on her attention. She did not, as is the case with many of her class in life, form her estimate of his right to her respect by his dress, which was of the plainest description, consisting of the travelling cap just mentioned as doffed in honour of herself, a riding coat of rough blue cloth, a plaid waist- cm!, and trowsers of brown duck, coming down low over the instep of a pair of short-ancle boots, well calculated, from their thickness, for clam...« less