St. ElmoA slender girl of twelve years' growth steadied a pail of water on her head with both dimpled arms thrown up in ancient classic Caryatides attitude; and pausing a moment beside the spring stood fronting the great golden dawn-watching for the first level ray of the coming sun and chanting the prayer of Habakkuk. |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | St. Elmo |
| Author | Augusta Jane Evans |
| Publisher | James Nisbet & Company Limited, 1899 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2015 |
| ISBN | 084881973X, 9780848819736 |
| Length | 482 pages |
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