Excerpt from A Short Account of the Courtship of Alonzo and Melissa: Setting Forth Their Hardships and Difficulties, Caused by the Barbarity of an Unfeeling FatherA soft and silent shower had descended; a thousand transitory gems trembled upon the foliage glittering to the western ray. A bright rainbow sat upon a southern cloud the light a.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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