TALES OF A
CRUEL COUNTRY
TALES OF A
CRUEL COUNTRY
BY
GERALD CUMBERLAND
Author of “Set Down in Malice”
NEW YORK
BRENTANO’S
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1919, by
BRENTANO’S
All rights reserved
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
TO
FREDERICK NOEL BYRON
Then came sudden alarms; hurryings to and fro; trepidations of innumerable fugitives, I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me; and but a moment allowed—and clasped hands, with heart-breaking partings, and then—everlasting farewells! and, with a sigh such as the caves of hell sighed when the incestuous mother uttered the abhorred name of Death, the sound was reverberated—everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!
De Quincey