Meadow Grass

Meadow Grass is a novel written by Alice Brown. The story revolves around the life of a young girl named Ellen who is living in a small town in New England. Ellen is a dreamer and spends most of her time in the fields and meadows surrounding her town, where she finds peace and solace. However, her peaceful life is disrupted when she falls in love with a young man named Robert. Robert is a wealthy man from the city and Ellen's family disapproves of their relationship. Despite the obstacles, Ellen and Robert are determined to be together. The novel explores themes of love, family, and society's expectations. It is a heartwarming story of a young girl's journey to find her place in the world and her fight for true love.It was half-past nine of a radiant winter's night, and the Widder Poll's tooth still ached, though she was chewing cloves, and had applied a cracker poultice to her cheek. She was walking back and forth through the great low-studded kitchen, where uncouth shadows lurked and brooded, still showing themselves ready to leap aloft with any slightest motion of the flames that lived behind the old black fire-dogs. At every trip across the room, she stopped to look from the window into the silver paradise without, and at every glance she groaned, as if groaning were a duty.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.