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Excerpt from Asphodel: A Novel
It was a day on which common mortals were almost fainting with the heat, puffing and blowing and complaining - a blazing midsummer day and even here, in the forest of Fontainebleau, Where the mere idea of innumerable trees was suggestive of Shadow and coolness, the heat was barely supportable - a heavy slumberous heat, loud with the hum of millions of insects, per fumed with the breath of a thousand pines. Daphne revelled in the fierce sunshine - she threw back her crest of waving hair, bright as yellow gold, she smiled up at the cloudless blue, she looked unwinkingly even at Sol himself, the mighty unquenchable king of the sky, glorious yonder in his highest heaven. 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.
