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In The Midst Of Life Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians
Author: Ambrose Bierce

IN THE MIDST OF LIFE BY AMBROSE BIERCE IN ONE VOLUME - 1892 - CONTENTS - The Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Day before . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Day after . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 SOLDIERS . CONTENTS . CIVILIANS . A WATCHER BY THE DEAD . . . . . . . . . THE MAN AND THE SNAKE . . . . . . . . . A HOLYT ERROR . . . . . . . . . . . . .... more » AN INHABITAN O T F CARCOSA . . . . . . . . THE BOARDEDW INDOW . . . . . . . . . . THX MIDDLET OE OF THE RIGHT FOOT . . . . . HAYTA THE SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . AN HEIRE F S RO S M REDHORSE . . . . IN THE MIDST OF LIFE. i THE. SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS. THE NIGHT. ONE midsummer night a farmers boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati, was following a bridle path through a dense and dark forest. He had been searching for some missing cows, and at nightfall found himself a long way from home, and in a part of the country with which he was only partly familiar. But he was a stout-hearted lad, and, knowing his general direction from his home, he plunged into the forest without hesitation, guided by the stars. Coming into the bridle path, and observing that it ran in the right direction, he followed it. The night was clear, but in the woods it was exceedingly dark. it was more by the sense of touch than by that of sight that the lad kept the path. He could not, indeed, very easily go astray the undergrowth on both sides was so thick as to be almost impenetrable. He had gone into the forest a mile or more when he was surprised to see a feeble gleam of light shining through the foliage skirting the path on his left. The sight of it startled him, and set his heart beating audibly. The old Breede house is somewhere about here, he said to himself. This must be the other end of the path which we reach it by from our side. Ugh what should a light be doing there I dont like it. Nevertheless, he pushed on. A moment later and he had emerged from the forest-into a small, open space, mostly upgrown to brambles. There were remnants of a rotting fence. A few yards from the trail, in the middle of the clearing, was the house, from which the light came through an un glazed window. The window had once contained glass, but that and its supporting frame had long ago yielded to missiles flung by hands of venturesome boys, to attest alike their courage and their hostility to the supernatural for the Breede house bore the evil reputation of being haunted. Possibly it was not, but even the hardiest sceptic could not deny that it was deserted-which, in rural regions, is much the same thing. Looking at the mysterious dim light shining from the ruined window, the boy remembered with apprehension that his own hand had assisted at the destruction. His penitence was, of course, poignant in proportion to its tardiness and inefficacy. He half expected to be set upon by all the unworldly and bodiless malevolences whom he had outraged by assisting to break alike their windows and their peace. Yet this stubborn lad, shaking in every limb, would not retreat. The blood in his veins was strong and rich with the iron of the frontiersman. He was but two removes from the generation which had subdued the Indian. He started to pass the house. As he was going by, he looked in at the blank window space, and saw a strange and temfjing sight-the figure of a man seated in the centre of the room, at a table upon which lay some loose sheets of paper. The elbows rested on the table, the hands supporting the head, which was uncovered. On each side the fingers were pushed into the hair...

ISBN-13: 9781408624029
ISBN-10: 1408624028
Publication Date: 10/29/2007
Pages: 284
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Publisher: Stronck Press
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