Dawn Of The Morning: By Grace Livingston Hill - Illustrated
Grace Livingston Hill
Paperback
(Independently published, July 24, 2017)
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Dawn Of The Morning by Grace Livingston Hill Dawn Rensselaer is a runaway bride, fleeing a husband she was tricked into marrying. But is she also running away from love? In the year 1824, in a pleasant town located between Schenectady and Albany, stood the handsome colonial residence of Hamilton Van Rensselaer. Solemn hedges shut in the family pride and hid the family sorrow, and about the borders of its spacious gardens, where even the roses seemed subdued, there played a child. The stately house oppressed her, and she loved the sombre garden best Her only friend in the old house seemed a tall clock that stood on the stairs and told out the hours in the hopeless tone that was expected of a clock in such a house, though it often took time to wink pleasantly at the child as she passed by, and talk off a few seconds and minutes in a brighter tone. But the great clock on the staircase ticked awesomely one morning as the little girl went slowly down to her father's study in response to his bidding...