In the country of-there is a sequestered hamlet, which I have often sought occasion to pass, and which I have never left without a certain reluctance and regret. It is not only (though this has a remarkable spell over my imagination) that it is the sanctuary, as it were, of a story which appears to me of a singular and fearful interest; but the scene itself is one which requires no legend to arrest the traveller's attention. I know not in any part of the world, which it has been my lot to visit, a landscape so entirely lovely and picturesque, as that which on every side of the village I speak of, you may survey. The hamlet to which I shall here give the name of Grassdale, is situated in a valley, which for about the length of a mile winds among gardens and orchards, laden with fruit, between two chains of gentle and fertile hills.
| Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Aug 25, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 478 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1500958425 |
| ISBN-13: 9781500958428 |