Mary Anderson

Résumé du livre

Return to Table of Contents Long Branch, one of America's most famous watering-places, in midsummer, its softly-wooded hills dotted here and there with picturesque -frame- villas of dazzling white, and below the purple Atlantic sweeping in restlessly on to the New Jersey shore. The sultry day has been one of summer storm, and the waves are tipped still with crests of snowy foam, though now the sun is sinking peacefully to rest amid banks of cloud, aflame with rose and violet and gold.