Author: Jessie Fothergill

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781330680735

Excerpt from From Moor Isles, Vol. 1: A Love Story One night, late in October, when it was pitch dark, moonless, starless, and black, a soft, moist westerly wind, with just a slant of south in it, was playing a wild but melodious symphony over the great stretches of moorland, and across milies of bleak northern country, as it came with a soft but tremendous rush up a rough, uphill road, and rising ever into a deeper roar, seemed to give a leap as it reached the summit of the long brow, and encountered a wild, upland sweep, over which it could and did tear rejoicingly, whistling, calling, and crying from hill to hill, till it struck the great blunt, square head of Ravenside, the huge buttress which at that point shuts off Lancashire from Yorkshire. Smiting this mighty hill-top, it ruffled the heather, and laid low the forests of bracken, which thickly clothed his mighty sides, and tried to soften the grim outline of his dark head, and then it tore lustily onwards. There was joy and hope and life in it, for all its boisterous roughness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.