The Heidenmauer (Volume 29); Or, the Benedictines - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1896. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER MOHAWK EDITION VOLUMES SOLD SEPARATELY Bound In Cloth, Octavo, Gilt Top, Each . $1.25 Uniform in general style with the Hudson Edition of Irving's Works. Section I. Comprises: Section II. Comprises: I The Deerslayer f The Pilot LAST OF THE MOHICANS RED ROVBR The Pathfinder J Wing And Wing The Pioneers 1 The Water-witch The Prairie The Two Admirals The Spy L The Sea-lions Section III. Comprises: I Homeward Bound Home As Found The Crater Afloat And Ashore Miles Wallingford Jack Tier Section IV. Comprises: Section V. Comprises: "Ishall crave your forbearance a little; may be, I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself." Measure for Measure. CONTRARY to a long-established usage, a summer had been passed within the walls of a large town: but, the moment of liberation arrived, the bird does not quit its cage with greater pleasure, than that with which post-horses were commanded. We were four in a light travelling caleche, which strong Norman cattle transported merrily towards their native province. For a time we quitted Paris, the queen of modern cities, with its tumults and its order; its palaces and its lanes; its elegance and its filth; its restless inhabitants and its stationary politicians; its theories and its practices; its riches and its poverty; its gay and its sorrowful; its rentiers and its patriots; its young liberals and its old illiberals; its three estates and its equality; its delicacy of speech and its strength of conduct; its government of the people, and its people of no government; its bayonets and its moral force; its science and its ignorance; its amusements and its revolutions; its resistance that goes backward, and its movement that stands still; its mi...