Coeur D'Alene (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Coeur D'alene Darcie, the only member of the firm pos sessed of a trunk, searched wildly among its contents for any garment remotely sugges tive of the needs and proportions of a nymph-like girl. Her glowing cheeks told of a rough encounter with the wind and rain, her eyes beamed intelligence and mirth her lips smiled pleasure and sympa thy and appreciation: she was an adorable girl. In despair, Darcie placed at her disposal his entire wardrobe, including his boots, and she made clever selection of a Turk ish bathrobe, a red-and-white Navajo blan ket for drapery, and a set of deplorable fiannels which Mistress Malony of Gem had soaped and punched and kneaded till no vestige remained of their original size, sex, or condition. 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.