The Dead and the Countess

By Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, Mrs.

Book Id: WPLBN0000628280
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Title:	The Dead and the Countess
Author:	Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, Mrs.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: It was an old cemetery, and they had been long dead. Those who died nowadays were put in the new burying?place on the hill, close to the Bois d'Amour and within sound of the bells that called the living to mass. But the little church where the mass was celebrated stood faithfully beside the older dead; a new church, indeed, had not been built in that forgotten corner of Finisterre for centuries, not since the calvary on its pile of stones had been raised in the tiny square, surrounded then, as now, perhaps, by gray naked cottages; not since the castle with its round tower, down on the river, had been erected for the Counts of Croisac. But the stone walls enclosing that ancient cemetery had been kept in good repair, and there were no weeds within, nor toppling headstones. It looked cold and gray and desolate, like all the cemeteries of Brittany, but it was made hideous neither by tawdry gew?gaws nor the license of time.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Dead and the Countess, 1 -- Gertrude Atherton, 1