Mill on the Floss, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS. BOOK IV. THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION. CHAPTER I. a variation of protestantism unknown to EOSSUET. Journeying down the Rhone on a summer's day, you have perhaps felt the sunshine made dreary by those ruined villages which stud the hanks in certain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose, like an angry, destroying god, sweeping down the feeble generations whose breath is in their nostrils, and making their dwellings a desolation. Strange contrast, you may have thought, between the effect produced on us but these dismal Tcmuants of commonplace houses, which in their best days were but the sign of a sordid life, belonging in all its details to our own vulgar era ; and the effect produced by those ruius on the castled Rhine, which have crumbled and mellowed into such harmony with the green and rocky steeps, that they seem to have a natuial fitness, like the mountain-pine : nay, even in the day when they wore built they must have had this fitne

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CONTENTS; VOL II; Book IV; THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION" Cbaftr* paoa; I A Variation of PROTESTANTism unknown TO BOSSUET 1; II The Torn Nest is pierced bv the Thorns 8; III A Voice from the Past 1G; Book V WHEAT AND TARES; I In the Red Deeps 37; II Aunt Glegg learns the breadth of Bob's Thumb 54; IIT The Wavering Balance 79; IV Another Love-Scene 89; V The Cloven Tree 97; Yl The Hard-won Triumphh4; VII A Day of Reckoning 121; 13 Book VI; THE GREAT TEMPTATION; I A Duet in Paradise 130; TI First Impressions 142; III Confidential Moments 161; IV Brother and Sister 167; V Showing that Tom had opened the oyster; 177; VI illustrating the LAWS of attraction 184; VII Pillip RE-ENTERS 10D; VIII WAKEM IN A NEW LIGHT 218; IX CHARITY in FULL-DRESS 220; X The Spell Seems broken 243; XI In the Lane 252; XII A Family Party 2c1; XIII Borne alsong by the Tide 270; XIV Waking 289; Book VII ; THE FINAL RESCUE ; I Return to the Mill 304; II