Excerpts from the Book 'The Law Of Hemlock Mountain':

... decorum held waveringly for a little before its breaking, and he began with a queer strain in his voice:. You'll have to take my IOU. I've lost more ...
... bother, major. I get your meaning. Spurrier took the fered hand in both his own. No officer can give me social recognition. I believe ...
... but with it came the galling recognition that, except for Beverly's bull-dog pertinacity, Spurrier himself would have been a life-termer, ...
... were others in that small group who answered the call of the law as reluctantly as he. Sam Mosebury was accounted as dangerous as a rattlesnake, and ...
... that the court has proven lax.. I mean to say, declared the lawyer in a voice that suddenly mounted and rung like a trumpeted challenge, that ...
... of one of the candidates for the circuit judgeship.. Again the hawk-keen blaze flared in the eyes of his host. You are mistaken, sir, he declared ...
... the swiftness of a shooting star. It is a flash and it is gone. Sometimes from beyond a door I also hear a voice singing.. He leaned his elbows ...
... when he had slipped through the laurel, had gone back to his own house and waited for the talk of John Spurrier's mysterious death to drift along the ...
... dram of licker.. Ten minutes of nimble-witted fencing ensued between the two sons of avarice, and at their end the blind man stumped out, carrying ...
... electric buzzer it warned and sprang. He escaped by an uncomfortable margin and attacked it with the flail before it could rearrange its coils. Finally ...
... stress of this conflict in his mind, as he sat before his hearth in shadows that were vague of light and shape, that unaccustomed surrender to imagination ...
... inferiority in parallel with this woman's aristocratic poise and cynical smile, flitted in succession across the face of the mountain girl and ...
... that were to start from the cabin and give voice in the laurel. Waiting for them was a torn scrap of blue denim such as rough overalls are made of. ...
... They were going forward with an adroit drawing in and knitting together of scattered strands, and the warp and woof of this weaving were coming ...
... thet, Mr. Spurrier. I don't sot no master store by witchcraft foolery my ownself. Mebby ye recalls thet oncet I told ye a leetle story erbout my cat ...
... grasp. Seemingly the enemy slept on. Presumably in those last tired hours the authorizing bill would slip through to passage with the frictionless ease ...
... Martin Harrison had been led into the sinking of a fortune. Harrison would, in all likelihood, be less bitter about the money loss, than the thought ...
... only a piling up of warnings. For the present you will give every indication of having abandoned the project.. That is my idea, sir. I was not speaking ...
... he thought or dreamed of anything else or any one else so dearly and so constantly as of her. He stood at the fence with half-closed eyes for a moment, ...
... that Death bandaged my eyes and forebore, And bade me creep past.. At all events he would, in the figurative sense, die fighting to-morrow. He ...