Painted Meadows (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Painted MeadowsThis little back room was stuffy. All the windows were high, to discourage any possible peeping Toms who might wish to spy on the councils of the mighty. There was no furniture except half a dozen old chairs, handmade but unpolished, and a table and a high cupboard with solid doors. The cupboard might have been mysterious when shut, but when Seth threw the upper doors open and dis closed a small looking-glass and a comb, and nothing else except old books and newspapers and some boxes of letters, its mystery was gone. He combed his thick wiry brown hair quickly, and shut the cupboard up again, and came out, wiping the sweat from his temples.He tweaked at his tie, and put on his coat, and then came to the door and looked up the street. The good Methodists were nearly all out of sight by this time, but a straggling family party presently passed, the father inclined to be leisurely, the mother wearily anxious to get home and get Sunday dinner over, and the two children plainly peevish from the double strain of being dressed up and sitting through the long sermon. The man nodded to Seth deferentially.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.