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Jane Sinclair; Or, the Fawn of Springvale
Jane Sinclair Or the Fawn of Springvale Author:William Carleton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: Sadlier Subjects: Irish fiction Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It h... more »as 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 books for free. Excerpt: LHA DHU; , THE DAKK DAY. There is no country in the world whose scenery is more sweetly diversified, or more delicately shaded away into that exquisite variety of surface whicl presents us with those wavy outlines of beauty that softly melt into each other, than is that of our om green island. Alas ! how many deep valleys, wild glens, green meadows, and pleasant hamlets, lie scattered over the bosom of a country, peopled by inhabitants who are equally moved by the impulses of mirth and sorrow; each valley, and glen, and pleasant hamlet marked by some tearful remembrance of humble calamity of which the world never hears. How little do its proud nobility know of the fair and still beauty which marks the unbroken silence of its most delightful retreats, or of the unassuming records of love or sorrow, which pass down through a single generation, and are soon lost in the rapid stream of life. We do not love to remember sorrow, but its traces, notwithstanding, . are always the most uneffaceable, and, what is strange as true, its mournful imprint remains everthe longest upon the heart that is most mirthful. We talk not now of the hollow echo, like mirth, which comes from thousands only because the soul is wanting. No; but we say that as the diamond is found in the darkness of the mine, as the lightning shoots with most vivid flashes from the gloomiest cloud, so does mirthfulness frequently proceed from a heart sus...« less