Full name: The Golden Fleece: A Romance

Author: Julian Hawthorne Year: 1896 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Free books Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Project Gutenberg

The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to languor and revery; but nothing could abate the energy of this bony sage.