Excerpt from The Heart That Knows Still further to the left, along the foot Of the uplands which ran diminishing northward, a far Off group Of roofs, with a couple Of church spires and a cluster Of masts, showed the little town Of Sackville on its gently billowing hills. Much nearer, a promontory of wooded upland bore, half hidden in its front, an Old colonial mansion, West cock House, with horse-chestnuts and Lombardy poplars ranged majestically before it. Outspread behind the watcher on the dyke lay a mile-breadth Of the same light green marshes, traversed by a meandering creek which came to the sea relue tantly, close at the girl's right. It pierced the mas sive barrier Of the dyke by an aboi d'ecmx (or Bito, as the country-folk called it), and formed a tiny port for the boats Of the Shad-fishers, whose high, brown net-reels sentinelled its borders. The broad belt Of marsh, secure behind its rampart Of dyke, ran Off in long curves toward the southwest, and terminated at the rocky, oak-crowned heights Of Wood Point. Behind it, trailing out sparsely along the tilled slope of the upland, and dotted here and there with dark fir-groves, lay the southerly portion of Westcock village, the rest Of it hidden from sight behind a shoulder Of dark fir-groves. 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.