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It was raining and blowing at Eldridge's Crossing. From the stately pine-trees on the hill-tops, which were dignifiedly protesting through their rigid spines upward, to the hysterical willows in the hollow, that had whipped themselves into a maudlin fury, there was a general tumult. When the wind lulled, the rain kept up the distraction, firing long volleys across the road, letting loose miniature cataracts from the hill-sides to brawl in the ditches, and beating down the heavy heads of wild oats on the levels; when the rain ceased for a moment the wind charged over the already defeated field, ruffled the gullies, scattered the spray from the roadside pines, and added insult to injury. But both wind and rain concentrated their energies in a malevolent attempt to utterly disperse and scatter the "Half-way House," which seemed to have wholly lost its way, and strayed into the open, where, dazed and bewildered, unprepared and unprotected, it was exposed to the taunting fury of the blast. A loose, shambling, disjointed, hastily built structure-representing the worst features of Pioneer renaissance-it rattled its loose window-sashes like chattering teeth, banged its ill-hung shutters, and admitted so much of the invading storm, that it might have blown up or blown down with equal facility.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Jeffbriggs'slovestory
• Author: Bret Harte
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108
• EAN: 9781421896250
• ISBN: 9781421896250
• ID: 08414400
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 145 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2007

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