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Thelma

By Marie Corelli

2019-06-13 18:30:24

Midnight,—without darkness, without stars! Midnight—and the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky above him,—his canopy,—gleamed with a cold yet l ... Read more
Midnight,—without darkness, without stars! Midnight—and the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky above him,—his canopy,—gleamed with a cold yet lustrous blue, while across it slowly flitted a few wandering clouds of palest amber, deepening, as they sailed along, to a tawny orange. A broad stream of light falling, as it were, from the centre of the magnificent orb, shot lengthwise across the Altenfjord, turning its waters to a mass of quivering and shifting color that alternated from bronze to copper,—from copper to silver and azure. Less

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File size515.118 KB
Print pages246
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2017-05-24
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781465537492
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Marie Corelli
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Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924), born Mary Mackay, was a best-selling British novelist of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, whose controversial works of the time often label her as an ear...

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