Ruby's Reward — page 107: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII. WHAT THIS ECIIOES SAID. Timmy had been slowly ascending a high hill during the conversation just recorded, but now they had reached the top, and Ruby turned to look back over the way they had come, and, as she uttered a cry of delight, Walter stopped the horses to give her an opportunibsy to appreciate the view. The carriage behind them halted also, and those four people were held spell- bound by a picture such as one reads aboub sometimes, but seldom secs. There were hills everywhere, with rich | little valleys between, cach one, in its | dress of varied hues, Ike some superb gem that catches a thousand lights from the (iadem in which itis set. All the beauty of a glovious stummer seemed concentrated in the magnificent scene. A hbeautifal river, winding in and out like a thread of silver embroidered in quaint designs on Nature’s vesture, scemed almost like a thing of life as it glittered and sparkled in the sunshine, while here and there along its banks, thrifty villages nestled lovingly among the emerald, and ruby, and gold, with now and then a heavenward-pointing spire, which told that Nature’s beauty- dispensing God was not forgotten in the en- joyment of His bountiful gifts, Above and over all was the deep blue vault of heaven, spotted with white, fleecy clouds that made shifting and fantastic shadows over hill ang dale. “Did you ever sec anything like it before?” said Ruby, under her biegiiocks.com