The Twins of Table Mountain

by Bret Harte

Overview

Book Excerpt: rkness seemed to resent. The faces of the twomen thus revealed were singularly alike. The same thin, narrowoutline of jaw and temple; the same dark, grave eyes; the samebrown growth of curly beard and mustache, which concealed themouth, and hid what might have been any individual idiosyncrasy ofthought or expression,--showed them to be brothers, or better knownas the "Twins of Table Mountain." A certain animation in the faceof the second speaker,--the first-comer,--a certain light in hiseye, might have at first distinguished him; but even this faded outin the steady glow of the lantern, and had no value as a permanentdistinction, for, by the time they had reached the western verge ofthe mountain, the two faces had settled into a homogeneous calmnessand melancholy.The vague horizon of darkness, that a few feet from the lanternstill encompassed them, gave no indication of their progress, untiltheir feet actually trod the rude planks and thatch that formed theroof of their habitation; for tRead More

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484092965
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/11/2013
Pages:	124
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.26(d)

About the Author

Francis Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, fiction, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories but his Gold Rush tales have been most often reprinted, adapted and admired.