The Laughing Girl by Robert W. Chambers 1918

The Laughing Girl
Robert W. Chambers
New York: A. L. Burt Company
Copyright 1918
361 pages
Frontispiece by Henry Hutt

The binding has breaks and is weakening but still in acceptable condition. The pages are tanned with some foxing and small brown age spots. The cover is rubbed and has a small amount of edge wear, the spine is lightly toned. Acceptable. Hardcover.

Chapter 1:  There was a red-headed slattern sweeping the veranda--nobody else visible about the house. All the shutters of the stone and timber chalet were closed; cow-barn, stable, springhouse and bottling house appeared to be deserted.  Weeds smothered the garden where a fountain played above a brimming basin of gray stone; cat-grass grew rank on the oval lawn around the white-washed flag-pole from which no banner flapped. An intense and heated silence possessed the place. Tall mountains circled it, cloud-high, enormous, gathered around the little valley as though met in solemn council there under the vast pavilion of sky...  .14  (#0000837)