{"product_id":"2940013537996","title":"In The High Valley","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER                                              PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. ALONG THE NORTH DEVON COAST                      7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. MISS OPDYKE FROM NEW YORK                       40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. THE LAST OF DEVON AND THE FIRST OF AMERICA      65\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. IN THE HIGH VALLEY                              93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. ARRIVAL                                        127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. UNEXPECTED                                     149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. THORNS AND ROSES                               174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER                        204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. THE ECHOES IN THE EAST CANYON                  235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. A DOUBLE KNOT                                  267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN THE HIGH VALLEY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALONG THE NORTH DEVON COAST.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIT was a morning of late May, and the sunshine, though rather watery,\u003cbr\u003eafter the fashion of South-of-England suns, was real sunshine still, and\u003cbr\u003eglinted and glittered bravely on the dew-soaked fields about Copplestone\u003cbr\u003eGrange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was an ancient house of red brick, dating back to the last half of\u003cbr\u003ethe sixteenth century, and still bearing testimony in its sturdy bulk to\u003cbr\u003ethe honest and durable work put upon it by its builders. Not a joist had\u003cbr\u003ebent, not a girder started in the long course of its two hundred and odd\u003cbr\u003eyears of life. The brick-work of its twisted chimney-stacks was intact,\u003cbr\u003eand the stone carving over its doorways and window frames; only the\u003cbr\u003eimmense growth of the ivy on its side walls attested to its age. It\u003cbr\u003etakes longer to build ivy five feet thick than many castles, and though\u003cbr\u003enew masonry by trick and artifice may be made to look like old, there is\u003cbr\u003eno secret known to man by which a plant or tree can be induced to\u003cbr\u003esimulate an antiquity which does not rightfully belong to it.\u003cbr\u003eInnumerable sparrows and tomtits had built in the thick mats of the old\u003cbr\u003eivy, and their cries and twitters blended in shrill and happy chorus as\u003cbr\u003ethey flew in and out of their nests.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Grange had been a place of importance, in Queen Elizabeth's time, as\u003cbr\u003ethe home of an old Devon family which was finally run out and\u003cbr\u003eextinguished. It was now little more than a superior sort of farm-house.\u003cbr\u003eThe broad acres of meadow and pleasaunce and woodland which had given it\u003cbr\u003econsequence in former days had been gradually parted with, as\u003cbr\u003emisfortunes and losses came to its original owners. The woods had been\u003cbr\u003efelled, the pleasure grounds now made part of other people's farms, and\u003cbr\u003ethe once wide domain had contracted, until the ancient house stood with\u003cbr\u003eonly a few acres about it, and wore something the air of an old-time\u003cbr\u003ebelle who has been forcibly divested of her ample farthingale and\u003cbr\u003ehooped-petticoat, and made to wear the scant kirtle of a village maid.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070114742512,"sku":"2940013537996","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013537996_p0.jpg?v=1763582525","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013537996","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}