Item - Twice Rescued

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 28 no. 18 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXVIII, no. 18, March 10, 1873 (Issue)
Author:	Quinn, George Henry
Date:	March 10, 1873
First Sentence:	The night was dark with the gathering storm; the wind sighed mournfully among the trees, and wailed in every key of anguish through the rocky defiles and along the surface of the deep, roaring river that lay soughing at my feet; the red glare of the lightning, at short intervals, set forth in all their savage grandeur the wild, uncultured beauties of the scene; the loud thunder rolled with many a booming echo through the sulphur-laden air; all nature groaned in that hard travail with which alone a fierce western storm may be launched upon the world, and yet I did not tremble, nor seek the shelter of my rustic cabin, for 'twas to behold such scenes as this-to feel the wild, exultant joy which now coursed madly through my veins that I had fled from my ink-bespattered study away on the Atlantic shore.