ethan brand

ETHAN BRANDA CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCEBartram the lime-burner, a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimedwith charcoal, sat watching his kiln at nightfall, while hislittle son played at building houses with the scattered fragmentsof marble, when, on the hill-side below them, they heard a roarof laughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind...