The Stucco House (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Stucco House (Classic Reprint) written by Gilbert Cannan and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stucco House Probably only Tibby knew what happened during those tragic years, and if her knowledge had become clear to her own mind it must have broken her heart. Wherefore she kept the story to herself and spent the years when she was old and alone smiling over the dear absurd things that occurred even in the grimmest times and rarely thinking at all of the cruel strain which had tested her, perhaps, most of all. But stories will out, and this was written in the lines of Tibby's face, as her friends remember her, gazing out of the narrow window above the porch of the stucco house, like a sentinel in a fortress spying out upon a hostile world. In truth she was the guardian of the memories of that house, the last faithful champion of the family that lived in it. The house was roomy: No. 29 Roman Street, so called because there had been a camp there, and no doubt the street was once a track down to the river. The street now leads to an iron-girder bridge over the foul oily stream running through the marshes on which the smoke has destroyed all vegetation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.