Rozella of Laconia; Or, Legends of the White Mountains and Merry-Meeting Bay

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIV. Captube 0 THE Langdells AND TuPTONS.--DESCRIPTION OP THE Mountain Passes And Scenery.--Burning Op Geovenor.--ArriVal At St. Francis.--Stark, And Eastman Bun The Gantlet. How frequently it oceurs in this strange life of mingled gloom and sunshine thai; our heaviest woes lie nearest us when all seems glad and gay, and our sweetest joys are close behind the clouds of darkest obscurity! And often, when passion seems not only conquered but chained beH3ath our feet, some sudden temptation snaps the chain asunder, and the foe rises to the assault more fierce and formidable than before. The oars of our determination are powerless when dipped in the bright waters of our hopes ever so expertly unless Heaven swells the sail and speeds our frail bark over life's treacherous waters to the haven of our rest. When Paugus and Chocorua had fallen, Rozella and her parents, as well as their neighbors, supposed their last foe was destroyed; and Squire Langdell, thinking the Indian wars now at an end, had sent to England for hia other daughter, who had remained with her uncle to complete her education. The prospects for peace and domestic tranquillity, so far as they could discern, were never so bright and flattering; but, beyond their ken, never were they darker or more gloomy. The happiest evening they had ever passed in social enjoyment was spent under the very eye and almost within arms' length of savage foes, ready to leap upon and devour their unsuspecting prey; and as the little cloud of mystery which had rested upon the enchanted wolf had passed away, another and more threatening cloud, black with sorrow and surcharged with death, hung over and lowered low above their devoted heads. The Indians who had been guided through the forests and mountain passes b...