Cressy - Bret Harte - Books - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781421845050 - July 15, 2007
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Cressy

Bret Harte

Cressy

As the master of the Indian Spring school emerged from the pine woods into the little clearing before the schoolhouse, he stopped whistling, put his hat less jauntily on his head, threw away some wild flowers he had gathered on his way, and otherwise assumed the severe demeanor of his profession and his mature age-which was at least twenty. Not that he usually felt this an assumption; it was a firm conviction of his serious nature that he impressed others, as he did himself, with the blended austerity and ennui of deep and exhausted experience. The building which was assigned to him and his flock by the Board of Education of Tuolumne County, California, had been originally a church. It still bore a faded odor of sanctity, mingled, however, with a later and slightly alcoholic breath of political discussion, the result of its weekly occupation under the authority of the Board as a Tribune for the enunciation of party principles and devotion to the Liberties of the People.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 15, 2007
ISBN13 9781421845050
Publishers 1st World Library - Literary Society
Pages 208
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 12 mm   ·   267 g
Language English  
Contributor 1stworld Library

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