Lorraine

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Excerpt from Lorraine: A RomanceThere was a rustle in the bushes, the sound of twigs snapping, a soft foot-fall on the dead leaves.Marche stopped, took his pipe out of his mouth, and listened.Patter! Patter! Patter! Over the crackling under brush, now near, now far away in the depths of the forest, then sudden Silence, the silence that startles.He turned his head warily, right, left, he knelt noiselessly, striving to pierce the thicket with his restless eyes. After a moment he arose on tiptoe, unslung his gun, cocked both barrels, and listened again, pipe tightly clutched between his white teeth.All around lay the beautiful Lorraine forests, dim and sweet, dusky as velvet in their leafy depths. A single sunbeam, striking obliquely through the brush tangle, powdered the forest mould with gold.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.