The Draytons and the Davenants; A Story of the Civil Wars. by the Author of Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family, Etc., Etc.

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Excerpt from The Draytons and the Davenants: A Story of the Civil Wars But as I look at the old crumpled papers again to-day, the past lives again once more before me, and I will not let it die. There is an hour in the day when the sun has set, and all the dazzle of day is gone, and the dusk of night has not set in, when I think the world looks larger and clearer than at any other time. The sky seems higher and more heavenly than at other hours; and yet the earth, tinted here and there on its high places with heavenly c'olor, seems more to belong to heaven. The little landscape within our horizon becomes more manifestly a portion of a wider world. And is there not such an hour in life? Before it passes let me use the light, and fix in my mind the scenes which will so soon vanish into dreams and silence.