The House of Pride [Hardcover]

Jack London (Author)

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Publication Date: December 2001

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SHERIFF OF KONA W"W T"OU cannot escape liking the | climate," Cudworth said, in reply to my panegyric on the Kona coast. "I was a young fellow, just out jf college, when I came here eighteen years ago. I never went back, except, of /xmrse, to visit. And I warn you, if /ou have some spot dear to you on earth, not to linger here too long, else you will find this dearer." We had finished dinner, which had been served on the big lanai, the one with a northerly exposure, though exposure is indeed a misnomer in so delectable a climate. The candles had been put out, and a sKm, white-clad Japanese slipped like a 193 ghost through the silvery moonlight, presented us with cigars, and faded away into the darkness of the bungalow. I looked through a screen of banana and lehua trees, and down across the guava scrub to the quiet sea a thousand feet beneath. For a week, ever since I had landed from the tiny coasting-steamer, I had been stopping with Cudworth, and during that time no wind had ruffled that unvexed sea. True, there had been breezes, but they were the gentlest zephyrs that ever blew through summer isles. They were not winds ; they were sighs — long, balmy sighs of a world at rest. "A lotus land," I said. "Where each day is like every day, and every day is a paradise of days," he answered. "Nothing ever happens. Itis not too hot. It is not too cold. It is always just right. Have you noticed how the land and the sea breathe turn and turn about ?" Indeed I had noticed that delicious, rhythmic, breathing. Each morning I had watched the sea-breeze begin at the shore and slowly extend seaward as it blew the mildest, softest whiff of ozone to the land. It played over the sea, just faintly darkening its surface, with here and there and everywhere long lanes of calm...

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Jack London was one of America's leading writers of the twentieth century.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 116 pages
• Publisher: Indy Publications (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588275361
• ISBN-13: 978-1588275363
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,335,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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