Lanterna Rally

Author: Will Payne

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781330654798

Excerpt from Overlook House Overlook House stands two hundred feet above the sea - as though a giant had carried out his domiciliary ideas in the Colonial style of architecture. Unfamiliar passengers in the little yachts and launches which ply those waters in the summer season sometimes mistake it for a hotel, or at least a country club, for it seems absurd that a mere family should require so much space as those grey stucco walls enclose. A battery of artillery might man uvre handily on the brick-paved terrace in front of the house. From its hill-top the house looks down to the sea across an unobstructed space, but sixty acres of carefully-tended woods screen it from other points of view - running down to the asphalt public road and trolley line which skirt the western boundaries of the grounds. Passengers on that side see only a wall of dressed stone, six feet high, with the woods beyond. 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."