Excerpt from Camiola: A Girl With a FortuneA church and churchyard stand on the edge Of a broad river. The waters Of the stream wash the outer wall Of the churchyard when the tide is full, or even half full; and sometimes in the stormy days Of winter and spring the waves toss themselves far over the wall, and sport and splash among the quiet tombs and hillocks Of the dead. The Visitor who looks over the low wall across the river and sees the heavy boats with their white or dark-red sails oating lazily past, or if the tide be low a strip Of shore beneath him with rusty anchors lying on it, and the hulks Of ancient craft stranded high and dry, is apt for the moment to be charmed by the mere sensuous beauty Of the scene into sheer forgetfulness Of the associa tions with graves, and death, and man's sad transitory career, which are proper to the paths and the mounds just behind him. The church itself is a Georgian structure, with a square brick tower, and the tower surmounted by a conical spire Of oopper, painted by time and weather a dull green, and with a vane on the top. A pillared.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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