Brothers in Arms, by the Author of 'Ulric'.

Brothers in Arms, by the Author of 'Ulric'. Book Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE FOUNTAIN IN THE SEA. It was a laughing summer day in Italy, the type of weather which a poet long resident in that country has correctly described as "less blue than radiant." There was no azure hue in the clear sky; only a marvellous transparency which seemed to lead the gaze upward and onward until it was lost in depths of light. The distant outlines were not bold, sharp, and metallic as in other brilliant climates, for land, sea, and sky were softened by that ineffable tenderness which seems peculiar to Italy. The beauteous shores of the Gulf of Spezia slumbered in a golden languor suggestive of noontide, although it was still an early hour of the young July morning. The last snowflakes had long since melted from the Carrara mountains, but the pure white veins of marble which glittered among their peaks were scarcely less refreshing to the eye amid the blaze of a midsummer landscape in the south. Equally grateful were the hanging olive woods of dusky silver, beneath which, watered by hidden rills, gleamed turf of vivid emerald, which retained its freshness throughout the long sultry months of drought. Close to the sea there was a rosy flush of oleander trees, springing like gorgeous bouquets into the blue air. Mingled with these, late oranges and lemons lingered in the sheltered gardens, their contrasted shades of ruddy and pale gold shining amid the burnished leaves. There also were acacias, with their rounded tops, and drooping foliage like deep green velvet plumes. There were tall cypresses, likeslender columns of black marble when viewed from a distance, and arnid them were scattered other trees of a leafage so delicate as to retain throughout the summer the exquisite golden green of Eastertide. Far away stretched the coast line in graceful curves,...

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