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Excerpt from Lu of the RangesFold upon the forest draped the undulating sides of the Main Ranges, and filled the valley, broken only by an occasional landslip, a splash of tawny earth and rubble, and the disintegrated roots of trees, with a new growth struggling to life above their fallen bodies. Forest myrtles, distorted and moss-grown, mountain-ash, black-butt, and the towering trunks of battalions of white stringy bark; beneath these, a thick growth of peppermint, creeper, and fern. No hint of distance, no sky visible, save directly overhead.There, in the midst of the forest, lay that deadening world which knows no horizon, where there is nothing to draw the soul upward beyond its own petty confines; no towering peak to climb, no beckoning road, no distant town, the trees pressing too tightly in their stifling phalanx to allow of any possible aspiration.It was, indeed, one of those places where it is the instinct of human beings to speak in whispers, like the trees among whose half-dried leaves ran an icy south wind; the forerunner of the unfallen snow, which hung a sombre curtain across the yellowish sky.In the midst of the trees it was almost warm among the huddled trunks. But in the one clearing, which lay on the southern flank of the mountain, the wind licked its way hungrily to earth, and swirled round and round like water in a bowl, beating up into icy waves the waters of a little mountain stream - by the side of which knelt a small girl washing clothes - and driving before it the flame and ashes of the fire that she had kindled.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
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