Excerpt from David Ellington The day ne ver broke more beautifully than on the seventeenth of April. It was one of those bright delicious mornings which occasionally take us by surprise in the early months, the more delightful because they stand out from the harsh and grating season like the beautiful flowers of the pactus from their unsightly trunk. I think there was not a cloud in the Whole sky; and as the light cautiously stole up from the eastern horizon like the gentlest pencilings of the northern aurora, it presently spread into a wide soft blush which might remind the reader of Pope's Homer's rosy-fingered mom. The air was silent and motionless as if it were watching that fair phenommon in the east. 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.