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Excerpt from The Bronze Bell
Breaking suddenly upon the steady drumming of the trucks, the prolonged and husky roar Of a locomotive whistle saluted an immediate grade-crossing. Roused by this sound from his solitary musings in the parlour-car Of which he happened temporarily to be the sole occupant, Mr. David Amber put aside the magazine over which he had been dreaming, and looked out of the window, catching a glimpse Of woodland road shining white between sombre walls Of stunted pine. Lazily he consulted his watch. It's not for nothing, he Observed pensively, that this railroad wears its reputation: we are consistently late. His gaze, again diverted to the flying countryside, noted that it had changed character, pine yielding to scrub-oak and second-growth - the ragged vestments Of an area some years since denuded by fire. This, too, presently swung away, giving place to cleared land arable acres golden with the stubble Of garnered har vests or sentinelled with unkempt shocks of corn. In the south a shimmer of laughing gold and blue edged the faded horizon. 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.
