| Love's Pilgrimage Contributor(s): Sinclair, Upton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1534844376 ISBN-13: 9781534844377 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $19.92 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1911 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 8" W x 10" (1.45 lbs) 330 pages |
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| Publisher Description: It was in a little woodland glen, with a streamlet tumbling through it. She sat with her back to a snowy birch-tree, gazing into the eddies of a pool below; and he lay beside her, upon the soft, mossy ground, reading out of a book of poems. Images of joy were passing before them; and there came four lines with a picture- "Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met, Are at their savory dinner set." "Ah " said she. "I always loved that. Let us be Corydon and Thyrsis " He smiled. "They were both of them men," he said. "Let us change it," she responded-"just between ourselves " "Very well-Corydon " said he. Then, after a moment's thought, she added, "But we didn't have the cottage." "No," said he-"nor even the dinner " Section 1. It was the Highway of Lost Men. They shivered, and drew their shoulders together as they walked, for it was night, and a cold, sleety rain was falling. The lights from saloons and pawn-shops fell upon their faces-faces haggard and gaunt with misery, or bloated with disease and sin. Some stared before them fixedly; some gazed about with furtive and hungry eyes as they shuffled on. |