Synopsis

Chapter I The Defeated Life “It was a church low-built and square with belfry perched on high; And no unseemly carving there to shock the pious eye.” Upon the shores of Casco Bay, about ten miles from the city of Portland, is a long hilly range, of perhaps three quarters of a mile in length a barren rocky spot partially covered with stinted pines. In one part where the grey granite “crops” out from the