Vixen, Complete

By Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Book Overview

The moon had newly risen, a late October moon, a pale almost imperceptible crescent, above the dark pine spires in the thicket through which Roderick Vawdrey came, gun in hand, after a long day's rabbit-shooting. It was not his nearest way home, but he liked the broad clearing in the pine wood, which had a ghostly look at dusk, and was so still and lonely that the dart of a squirrel through the fallen leaves was a startling event. Here and there a sturdy young oak that had been newly stripped of its bark lay among the fern, like the naked corpse of a giant. Here and there a tree had been cut down and slung across the track, ready for barking. The ground was soft and spongy, slippery with damp dead leaves, and inclined in a general way to bogginess; but it was ground that Roderick Vawdrey had known all his life, and it seemed more natural to him than any other spot upon mother earth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517001331
• ISBN13: 9781517001339
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"