Part 1. The Land Of Promise
Part 1. The Land Of Promise - Chapter 1
_ PART I. THE LAND OF PROMISE
CHAPTER I
Outside the subtle clarion of autumn‘s dying glory flamed in the torches of the maples and smoldered in the burgundy of the oaks. It trailed a veil of rose-ash and mystery along the slopes of the White Mountains, and inside the crumbling school-house the children droned sleepily over their books like prisoners in a lethargic mutiny.
Frost had brought the chestnuts rattling down in the open woods, and foraging squirrels were scampering among the fallen leaves.
Brooding at one of the front desks, sat a boy, slender and undersized for his thirteen years. The ill-fitting crudity of his neatly patched clothes gave him a certain uniformity with his fellows, yet left him as unlike them as all things else could conspire to make him. The long hair that hung untrimmed over his face seemed a black emphasis for the cameo delicacy of his features, lending them a wan note of pat

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