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    A Chilhowee Lily 1911
    A Chilhowee Lily 1911
    A Chilhowee Lily 1911
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    A Chilhowee Lily 1911

    By Mary Noailles Murfree

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Chilhowee Lily 1911 - Mary Noailles Murfree

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Chilhowee Lily, by

      Charles Egbert Craddock          (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: A Chilhowee Lily

             1911

      Author: Charles Egbert Craddock          (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      Release Date: November 19, 2007 [EBook #23554]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHILHOWEE LILY ***

      Produced by David Widger

      A CHILHOWEE LILY

      By Charles Egbert Craddock

      1911

      Tall, delicate, and stately, with all the finished symmetry and distinction that might appertain to a cultivated plant, yet sharing that fragility of texture and peculiar suggestion of evanescence characteristic of the unheeded weed as it flowers, the Chilhowee lily caught his eye. Albeit long familiar, the bloom was now invested with a special significance and the sight of it brought him to a sudden pause.

      The cluster grew in a niche on the rocky verge of a precipice beetling over the windings of the rugged primitive road on the slope of the ridge. The great pure white bloom, trumpet-shaped and crowned with its flaring and many-cleft paracorolla, distinct against the densely blue sky, seemed the more ethereal because of the delicacy of its stalk, so erect, so inflexibly upright. About it the rocks were at intervals green with moss, and showed here and there heavy ocherous water stain. The luxuriant ferns and pendant vines in the densely umbrageous tangle of verdure served to heighten by contrast the keen whiteness of the flower and the isolation of its situation.

      Ozias Crann sighed with perplexity as he looked, and then his eye wandered down the great hosky slope of the wooded mountain where in marshy spots, here and there, a sudden white flare in the shadows betokened the Chilhowee lily, flowering in myraids, holding out lures bewildering in their multitude.

      They air bloomin' bodaciously all over the mounting, he remarked rancorously, as he leaned heavily on a pickaxe; but we uns hed better try it ter-night ennyhows.

      It was late in August; a moon of exceeding lustre was in the sky, while still the sun was going down. All the western clouds were aflare with gorgeous reflections; the long reaches of the Great Smoky range had grown densely purple; and those dim Cumberland heights that, viewed from this precipice of Chilhowee, were wont to show so softly blue in the distance, had now a variant

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