Excerpt from The Mantle of Elijah: A Novel H, there you are, Miss Ally, blazing away the gas. Here's a letter for you. Put it down, Gwenny. Allegra's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, did not lift itself from the paper on which her pen was rhyming, and the bedroom mirror before which she wrote con tinned to reflect only a curly head of reddish-brown hair. The Old Welsh family servant stared. Allegra's wont was to fall on her rare letters like a famished tigress and tear open their Vitals in a twinkling. You might be telling us the news from the young ladies, Gwenny said with asperity. Allegra did not reply, but made a long erasure, frowned, and gnawed at her quill. You might be telling your mother the news from the young ladies, persisted Gwenny severely. 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.