The book Colonel Quaritch, V.C. : a Tale of Country Life 2 was written by author Haggard Henry Rider Here you can read free online of Colonel Quaritch, V.C. : a Tale of Country Life 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Colonel Quaritch, V.C. : a Tale of Country Life 2 a good or bad book?
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From century to century the bearers of that name had walked In these fields, and lived In yonder Castle, and looked upon the familiar swell of yonder ground and the silver flash of yonder river, and now their ashes were gathered here and all the forofotten turmoil of their lives was lost in the silence of those narrow tombs. Ida loved the spot, hallowed to her not only by the altar of her faith, but also by the human associations that clung around and clothed It as the ivy clothed its walls. He...re she had been christened, and here among her ancestors she hoped to be burled also. Here as a girl, when the full moon was up, she had crept In awed silence with her brother James to i66 COLONEL QUARITCH V.C. look through the window at the white and solemn figures stretched within. Here, too, she had sat on Sunday after Sunday for more than twenty years, and stared at the quaint Latin inscriptions cut on marble slabs, recording the almost superhuman virtues of departed de la Molles of the eighteenth century, her own immediate ancestors.
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