Mary Barton: An Historical Tale of Poland
By Henry Krasinski
Published by A.K. Newman and Co., 1846
One of the Colonel’s coachmen, a Carpathian mountaineer proposed to exhibit a performance common in his country. He was a man exceedingly tall and broad-chested, but appeared to possess singular activity. His brown hair, hanging down upon his back was curled at the end ; a kind [...]
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